The document discusses key aspects of multicultural education and social justice. It addresses how social justice aims to promote equity and diversity in teaching by helping students develop positive cultural identities grounded in their own communities. Multicultural curriculum should focus on issues like racism, gender, and social class, using teaching methods that engage diverse students. The power to influence education should come from oppressed communities, with educators collaborating to advance these communities. Empowerment increases people's ability to make choices and enact change, and in education it can help students form identities that give them confidence to succeed.

1. MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE SO YOUNG KIM