Empowerment through Multicultural Education

Empowerment through Multicultural EducationThis 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,

rich and poor

a largely ignored conversation between the two traditions has been carried on since at least the days of Whitehead's influence on early Cambridge analytic philosophy

integrating gender and racial diversity

University of Göttingen

The kidnapping of his infant son leads to the capture of both parents

Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten

Bertram Cope’s Year is a classic campus story that critiques the social lives of academics while emphasizing the struggles of its intelligent young hero

new academic programs

Doing Philosophy at the Movies finds the roots of profound philosophical ideas in the relatively ordinary context of popular

had chosen its place well: the wurleys were built in a green glade well shaded with blackwood and boobyalla trees

even in stories they fail to understand

London’s romance novel also provides intriguing insight on the early 20th century gender expectations