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Publication Date: 1989
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Power and the Politics of Knowledge: Transformative Leadership and Curriculum Development for Minority Language Learners.
McLaughlin, Daniel
Peabody Journal of Education, v66 n3 p41-60 Spr 1989
Examines the meanings of power in relation to questions about leadership, language, curriculum, school knowledge, and program development in a community-controlled Navajo school; describes in first-person-singular detail how power was used as a prescriptive notion to create English and Navajo literacy programs that specify conditions for student and teacher empowerment. (SM)
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Language of Instruction, Language Skills, Minority Groups, Native Language Instruction, Power Structure, Student Research, Teaching Methods, Transformational Leadership
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Language: English
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