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These students become empowered to change their world and overcome social and racial oppression and marginalization. Empowered students are those who attain skills and knowledge with their teachers, and become equipped and motivated to question the dynamics of reality around them, in order to transform and improve society. Problem-posing and dialogue-based education also empowers students to examine their knowledge and the world they live in, and train students with a voice to be heard and a perspective to share.  \nThe challenges that today’s students face range from social class and racism to low quality educational norms. Meeting these challenges successfully requires good schools and educators who think critically to empower their students. Educators’ pedagogical practices can empower students to improve society (McLaren, 2009) by enhancing the students’ personal character, critical thinking skills, and healthy student-teacher relationships. Although education is“complex, non-linear and to a great extent unquantifiable” (Shaker, 2004, p. 13), and “certain pedagogical practices become so habitual or natural in school settings that teachers accept them as normal, unproblematic, and expected” (McLaren, 2009, p. 71), students deserve the best education possible. Brunson and Vogt saw empowerment as a process whereby an individual learns and grows within a social and educational context that is supporting and encouraging (as cited in Sullivan, 2002) . Many students are deprived of their power and influence because of oppressive living conditions, racial marginalization, or hegemonic bourgeois norms (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 2009; McLaren, 2009; Ungerleider, 2004) . Schools grounded in critical theory empower students with society-transforming skills and knowledge despite their exposure to oppression.  \nOppression in Education  \nStudents’ internalization of self-limiting ideological formations, given their contextual living conditions, accentuates the unknowing acceptance of their social reality in the face of oppression (Darder, Baltodano, & Torres, 2009) . Many students are striving to survive (Shaker, 2004) and are struggling to learn in school because they are trying to use their everyday knowledge (McLaren, 2009) as “critical intervention in reality”(Freire, 2009, p. 57), in order to respond to the problems in their world. Parents are increasingly absent in the home because they work multiple jobs to pay bills (Ungerleider, 2004) . This “lack of supervision affects [the children’s] conceptions of education and life” (Aronowitz, 2009, p. 117), and students become more likely to internalize feelings of defenselessness and shame as personal failure (Greene, 2009) . These students have high demands of survival , which can be met when teachers assist them to think critically , in order to shift their internalized self-limiting ideological formations toward empowered and educated perspectives of hope and influence.  \nSocial class and race issues have marginalized individuals and groups in schools for centuries because of the unequal “social distribution of power and its structural allocation”(McLaren, 2009, p. 65) . Hooks (2009) emphasized the connection between the biased offering and receiving of knowledge within the prejudiced confines of social relations and values , which undoubtedly acknowledges class issues in education today. The understanding of power within society and how it influences and connects schooling to the larger social order imperatively molds working classes, and ostracizes races, to the predetermined ideology of marginalization within schools (Aronowitz, 2009; McLaren, 2009; Shaker, 2004) . As the walls of domination  \nsqueeze out the values of the working class, the oppressed begin to behave as victims and often passively accep","cbCaibdwaVGt9XgJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibdwaVGt9XgJ","pdf",227308,"English","# Abstract\n# Empowerment Through Critical and Dialogue-Based Education\n# Challenges Faced by Today’s Students\n# Oppression in Education","[{\"question\":\"How do good schools empower students, according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Good schools empower students by helping them think critically, grow in character, value relationships, and gain skills and knowledge to question social realities and transform society.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of challenges do students face in today’s schools?\",\"answer\":\"Students face social class inequality, racism, and low-quality educational norms that can limit learning and deepen marginalization.\"},{\"question\":\"How does oppression operate in education?\",\"answer\":\"Oppression is reinforced through self-limiting beliefs shaped by oppressive contexts, absent parental supervision, and classroom norms that conserve the interests of those in power while discouraging critical questioning.\"}]","How Good Schools Empower Students | PDF",1792082255,15]