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Student Self-Empowerment: A Dimension of Multicultural Education

Examined ways in which 27 urban ninth graders from diverse backgrounds displayed empowering behaviors and attitudes. Students clearly voiced that they were in control of their actions. Schooling in the urban setting often placed these students in classroom environments in which student empowerment was displayed through acts of resistance and sabotage. (SLD)

• Author/Creator: Sheets, Rosa Hernandez
• Date Published: Sum
• Journal/Secondary Title: Multicultural Education
• Number: 4
• Volume: 6
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Diversity (Student)
• Subject: Grade 9
• Subject: High Schools
• Subject: High School Students
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Resistance (Psychology)
• Subject: Student Attitudes
• Subject: Student Empowerment
• Subject: Urban Schools
• Subject: Urban Youth

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