Empowerment through Multicultural Education

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

AvChristine E. Sleeter,Christine E Sleeter

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This book reframes questions about student diversity by probing the extent to which society serves the interests of all, and by examining the empowerment of members of oppressed groups to direct social change. It examines the empowerment of children who are members of oppressed racial groups, lower class, and female, based on the ideas of multicultural education. A series of ethnographic studies illustrates how such young people view their world, their power to affect it in their own interests, and their response to what is usually a growing sense of powerlessness as they mature. The authors also conceptualize contributions of multicultural education to empowering young people, and report investigations of multicultural education projects educators have used for student empowerment. Issues in teacher education are also discussed.

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Utgivningsdatum1990-11-27
Mått153 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor340
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791404447

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INTRODUCTION:Multicultural Education and EmpowermentChristine E. Sleeter PART I: Schooling and the Disempowerment of Children from Oppressed Groups 1. Doing School in an Urban Appalachian First GradeKathleen Bennett 2. Mapping Terrains of Power: Student Cultural Knowledge Versus Classroom KnowledgeChristine E. Sleeter and Carl A. Grant 3. Peer-Proofing Academic Competition among Black Adolescents: "Acting White" Black American StyleSignithia Fordham 4. Disempowering White Working-Class Females: The Role of the High SchoolLois Weis PART II: Strategies for Empowerment through Education 5. A Curriculum for Empowerment, Action, and ChangeJames A. Banks 6. Empowerment through Media Literacy: A Multicultural ApproachCarlos E. Cortes 7. Cooperative Learning as Empowering PedagogyMara Sapon-Shevin and Nancy Schniedewind 8. Teaching Children about Social Issues: KidpowerValerie Ooka Pang 9. Classroom Use of African American Language: Education Tool or Social Weapon?Selase W. Williams 10. The Empowerment of Language-Minority StudentsRichard Ruiz 11. Changing Our Ideas about Ourselves: Group Consciousness Raising with Elementary School Girls as a Means to EmpowermentLee Anne Bell 12. Who Is Empowering Whom? The Social Construction of EmpowermentSusan R. Takata PART III: Empowerment and Teacher Education 13. The Rationale for Training Adults as TeachersMartin Haberman 14. The Power to Empower: Multicultural Education for Student-TeachersRenee Martin Notes and References Notes on Contributors Index

"This volume is a powerful indictment of our public educational system. U.S. teachers and policymakers can no longer ignore issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and handicap in their teaching. We can no longer afford as a nation to stick our heads in the sand and label these issues as someone else's—their—problem. Teacher educators and others centrally concerned with schooling must directly address issues raised in this book." — Mary Louise Gomez, University of Wisconsin-Madison