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