Getting Students Empowered Towards an Equitable Learning Environment

Abstract

The persistence of educational inequity has been the most durable and vigorous problem education research has faced since mid-20th century. Besides, education is a whole formed by different agents and all agents should take part to reach the desired quality education by coping with all inequity. Educational empowerment can be regarded as one strategy to create a more equitable atmosphere in learning settings. This chapter mainly focuses on the development of students' sense of empowerment in order to overcome disequilibrium at schools. It will also assess different techniques that can be utilized to make teachers and school principals empowered, and assist them to make students empowered. In order to come through some evidence, the results of previous studies on teacher and school principals' empowerment will be analyzed. After presenting the ideas, the chapter will provide some strategies and recommendations for both teachers and school principals on how to empower students to create equitable learning environments for them.