Frustrated by the challenge of opening teacher education students to a genuine understanding of the social justice concepts vital for creating an equitable learning environment?  Do your students ever resist accepting that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer people experience bias or oppression, or that their experiences even belong in a conversation about “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” or “social justice.”  Recognizing that these are common experience for teacher educators, the contributors to this book present their struggles and achievements in developing approaches that have successfully guided students to complex understandings of such threshold concepts as White privilege, homophobia, and heteronormativity, overcoming the “bottlenecks” that impede progress toward bigger learning goals and understandings.


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Packed with honest stories that document the missteps, mistakes, and rethinking of courses that focus on issues of social justice, this book offers all of us - professors, teachers, researchers, and students - strategies for teaching and learning how to face the inevitable bumps and obstacles that get in the way of full inclusion and understanding of multiple perspectives.  Engaging in frank discussions, the editors and authors of this text are a model of what is needed if we are to change how teachers are prepared to teach in our diverse classrooms.

    ~ Sonia Nieto - Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of

         Massachusetts, Amherst ~

Few challenges in teacher preparation are as salient as teaching the central, troubling concepts of social justice that many profoundly resist learning.  With theoretical nuance, pedagogical savvy, and highly relatable examples and self-reflections, Cultivating Social Justice Teachers shows the possiblilities for doing what often seems impossible.  This book is one that no teacher educator - or any educator - can or should do without.

    ~ Kevin K. Kumashiro - Author of Bad Teacher!  How Blaming Teachers Distorts the

         Bigger Picture ~

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Paul Gorski (second from left) leads a group of educators in a discussion of Cultivating Social Justice Teachers.

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