Empowerment through multicultural education edited by Christine E. Sleeter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / 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 -- Empowerment and teacher education. The rationale for training adults as teachers / Martin Haberman -- The power to empower: multicultural education for student-teachers / Renée Martin.