Critical Voices in Teacher Education

Acknowledgements.- Foreword, Shirley Steinberg.- Introduction, From Critique to New Scripts and Possibilities in Teacher Education, Barry Down, John Smyth.- Section A Towards a Critical Politics of Teacher Education.- Problematising Teachers' Work in Dangerous Times, John Smyth.- 2 Rediscovering Discourses of Social Justice: Making Hope Practical, Peter McInerney.- Preparing Teachers as Informed Professionals: Working with a Critical Ethnographic Disposition and a Socially Democratic Imaginary, Lawrence Angus.- Reconceptualising Teacher Standards: Authentic, Critical and Creative, Barry Down.- Teachers as Classed Cultural Workers Speaking Back through Critical Reflection, John Smyth.- Section B Teaching class, race, gender and student activism.- Unsettling Class: Standpoint Pedagogies, Knowledge and Privilege, Jane Pearce.- Critical Engagement with Whiteness: Beyond Lecturing on the Evils of Racism, Nado Aveling.- "Undoing" Gender and Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity: Embracing a Transgender Social Imaginary, Wayne Martino.- Strategic Confrontation - Within and Against Conservative Refusals, Lisa J. Cary.- Studying Culture Jamming to Inspire Student Activism, Marilyn Frankenstein.- Section C Contesting the curriculum.- Big Expectations for Little Kids in Early Childhood Education, Libby Lee-Hammond.- Whispering to the Hippopotamus about the 'Literacy Boomerang': Literacy Wars and Rumours of Wars, Cal Durrant.- Critical Engagement with Literacy: Using Qualitative Research in the Teacher Education Classroom, Wendy Cumming-Potvin.- Performing 'Hope': Authentic Story, Change and Transformation in Teacher Education, Peter Wright.- A Socially Critical HPE (aka physical education) and the Challenge for Teacher Education, Richard Tinning.- Reinvigorating Social Studies: A Desire for Powerful Learning, Robbie Johnston.- Sustainability: Ambiguity and Aspiration in Teacher Education, Sandra Wooltorton.- Afterword, Ken Tobin.