| Description |
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Teacher empowerment and school reform.
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| Contents |
Multicultural education and empowerment / Christine E. Sleeter -- Schooling and the disempowerment of children from oppressed groups. Doing school in an urban Appalachian first grade / Kathleen Bennett -- Mapping terrains of power: student cultural knowledge versus classroom knowledge / C.E. Sleeter and Carl A. Grant -- Peer-proofing academic competition among black adolescents: "acting white" black American style / Signithia Fordham -- Disempowering white working-class females: the role of the high school / Lois Weis -- Strategies for empowerment through education. A curriculum for empowerment, action, and change / James A. Banks -- Empowerment through media literacy: a multicultural approach / Carlos E. Cortés -- Cooperative learning as empowering pedagogy / Mara Sapon-Shevin and Nancy Schniedewind -- Teaching children about social issues: kidpower / Valerie Ooka Pang -- Classroom use of African American language: educational tool or social weapon? / Selase W. Williams -- The empowerment of language-minority students / Richard Ruiz -- Changing our ideas about ourselves: group consciousness raising with elementary school girls as a means to empowerment / Lee Anne Bell -- Who is empowering whom?: the social construction of empowerment / Susan R. Takata -- Empowerment and teacher education. The rationale for training adults as teachers / Martin Haberman -- The power to empower: multicultural education for student-teachers / Renée Martin |
| Notes |
(SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331) and index |
| Subject |
Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
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Educational equalization -- United States.
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Multicultural education -- United States.
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Political socialization -- United States.
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Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
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| Author |
Sleeter, Christine E., 1948-
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| LC no. |
89077295 |
| ISBN |
0791404439 |
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0791404447 (paperback) |
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