Discusses how teachers can include their students in classroom management by building a teacher-student partnership in the classroom. Explains that an increased role for students will enable them to practice their citizenship skills, improve instruction, and instill order in the classroom. Addresses how to expand the students/teacher roles. (CMK)

The Southern Paiute Indians embraced English and realized that letter writing was a good way to communicate with distant people. They welcomed and attended schools. Excerpts from letters demonstrate that Paiute Indians wrote often to White officials advancing their issues or protesting mistreatment, as well as to each other to maintain their…

Reports an analysis of Australian universities using academics' perceptions of their university-level environment. Focuses on a sample of 514 academics in 26 publicly funded universities who responded to the university-level environment questionnaires. Suggests that new universities must improve their level of research and scholarship to become…

Economic and social barriers to the academic and social success of many African American children are persistent. This provides impetus for developing community-based partnership education programs designed to empower African American children. The Research-Based Model Partnership Education Program one such university-school-community partnership…

Discusses the differences between subject matter and content within the realm of social studies. Asserts the importance of making connections within the social studies and allowing students more choices in subject matter. Explores how teacher education should change to help future teachers learn more about subject matter in the social studies.…

Focuses on the importance of developing student listening skills. Describes a classroom project for fifth-grade students in which they created a music video, addressing the roles of the students and the teacher. Includes a section detailing the steps involved in completing this project. (CMK)

Uses junk mail, newspaper advertisements, and other promotional material to overcome one teacher's lack of instructional material and to teach multilingual and multicultural teenagers and adults the basics of consumer advocacy and American civics. Notes that the students gained power through literacy that would not have been possible with…

Reviews and critiques three viewpoints that currently predominate in debates over vocational education. Demonstrates that the current debate overlooks opportunities to address vocational life as a meaningful and socially liberating area for study. Discusses features needed for an education that empowers students to enter vocations with critical…

Increasing true powers helps a teacher manage a classroom more effectively, minimizing behavioral problems, and maximizing learning. Personal and professional powers are described, and strategies to increase these powers are outlined. Included is a questionnaire which teachers can use to evaluate their "power potential." (IAH)

Describes a six-week curriculum unit to assist Hispanic immigrant students entering mainstream urban elementary classrooms. Emphasizes interviewing activities that "empower" the new student and heterogeneous group activities that break down prejudice among the mainstream students. (FMW)

Points out that a potentially serious flaw in many school-based programs lies in the fact that these programs are often for rather than by parents. Suggests that parents be included in the conceptualization, planning, and implementation of such programs. (MG)

Discusses ways to empower students through writing, using their own voices, plumbing their own lives for stories, poems, and essays; and engaging them in dialogue with their peers about writing and literature. (RAE)

The praxis orientation is proposed as an approach to school-based evaluation that enables professionals to understand power relationships and act toward empowerment of the local school community. The orientation is offered as an alternative to the positivist power-control approach, which is critiqued. (TJH)

Focuses on bilingual education programs in Indian schools and communities in the southwestern United States. A social-historical analysis of bilingual education policy is presented, with findings from research on bilingual education. (59 references) (CK)

Describes a research project designed to help empower the largely female child welfare staff and clients in a British Columbia child welfare agency by giving them more authority to shape agency practice according to their joint plans. (MDM)