Is Education Empowering Teacher And Student Alike?

One of the bases of the school restructuring action is educator empowerment. Empowerment allocations an one-by-one the proficiency to direct his or her own life. Traditionally, our schools have not empowered educators or children. They have had little to state in the decision-making process.

Restructuring efforts often outcome in a realignment of power inside the school system. Teachers gain the power to select curriculum, conceive principle and make conclusions in relative to the school. Glickman (1990) remarks that "the empowerment action has put a lightweight back into the eyes of gifted, skilled educators . . . ...