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The Disempowering of Empowerment: Out of the Revolution and into the Classroom.

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LeCompte, Margaret D.; deMarrais, Kathleen Bennett – Educational Foundations, 1992

Presents the term empowerment in historical context, reviews empowerment's disciplinary and theoretical sources, establishes a framework for studies that discuss empowerment in the context of programs for minority groups, and cautions against loose, uncritical use of empowerment in social action and pedagogy (which can create further…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment

Rethinking the Concept of "The Popular" in Critical and Poststructural Social and Educational Theory.

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Stout, Maureen – Educational Foundations, 1992

Examines the concept of popular culture in social and educational theory in the context of developing nations, particularly Latin America. Using a poststructuralist literary theory, the article elaborates a notion of the popular that offers a new conceptualization by incorporating a sense of competing identities and ideologies that form it. (SM)

Descriptors: Critical Theory, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations