Knowing and Empowerment [microform] : or, Student Empowerment Gone Good / Patrick J. McQuillan
- Bib ID:
- 5590938
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- McQuillan, Patrick J
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995
- 39 p.
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This paper focuses on Frontier High School, a new school designed as an alternative to more traditional schools in its district. While the school is still clarifying its structure and philosophy, it is committed to "honoring diversity," defined in such terms as race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, alternative lifestyles, and so on. The paper examines how the school's structure, curriculum, and dominant pedagogies emphasize the value of understanding and respecting multiple points of view, with a focus on student empowerment. The analysis shows that students empowered by their school experiences develop the ability, confidence, and motivation to succeed academically. The analysis draws on interviews conducted with a cross-section of one-third of the school's students (representative in terms of gender, grade, and ethnicity); the resulting data are linked with observations from classrooms and faculty meetings as well as policy statements developed by the school. The paper looks at definitions of student empowerment and how Frontier High School promotes empowerment (as knowledge, as appreciating multiple points of view, and as a social phenomenon). Data are summarized into six general findings: (1) empowerment is not an add-on to the school structure; it has been integrated throughout various aspects of school life; (2) Frontier High did not attempt to achieve student empowerment through a single means; (3) what constitutes empowerment and how it will be achieved is jointly defined by all community members, not just teachers and administrators; (4) in addition to giving students power and responsibility, faculty explicitly seek to help students think about how they would use their power; (5) empowerment is both a means to an end and an end in and of itself; and (6) empowerment is hard. (Contains 32 references.) (ND)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 18-22, 1995).
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