Empowerment Through Multicultural Education
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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.
Christine E Sleeter
Christine E. Sleeter is professor emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University-Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education and multicultural teacher education. She has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Teacher Education, Race Ethnicity & Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Curriculum Inquiry. Her recent books include Professional Development for Culturally Responsive and Relationship-Based Pedagogy (2011) and Teaching with Vision (2011) (with Catherine Cornbleth). She has been invited to speak in most U.S. states as well as several countries. Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice Award and the Central Washington University Distinguished Alum.
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