John M. Novak is Professor of Education at Brock University where he also served as Chair of Graduate Studies. He is co-author of Inviting School Success, and Education: By Invitation Only, in addition to being editor of Advancing Invitational Thinking. Since 1984 he has served as editor of Insights, a publication of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture.

"This book provides clear, disciplined intellectual grounding in philosophical ideals of democracy while illustrating efforts to implement, live, practice, and teach these. This unique balance between philosophy and practice is useful and informative. It provides hope for all who are constantly reflecting upon, restructuring, and perservering in this challenge to teach and think ethically and morally." — Rebecca F. Blomgren, Director of Teacher Education, Greensboro College

• Preface Introduction: The Talk and the Walk of Democratic Teacher EducationJohn M. Novak Section I: Programs Introduction 1. The Institute for Democracy in Education: Supporting Democratic TeachersGeorge Wood 2. Foxfire Teachers' Networks (Viewed Through Maxine Greene's The Dialectic of Freedom )Hilton Smith 3. Doing Women's Studies: Possibilities and Challenges in Democratic PraxisCecilia Reynolds 4. Democratic Empowerment and Secondary Teacher EducationThomas E. Kelly 5. Teaching for Democracy: Preparing Teachers to Teach DemocracyKeith Hillkirk 6. Deliberately Developing Democratic Teachers in a YearBarbara McEwan 7. An Institute for Independence through Action, Process, and TheoryJ. Cynthia McDermott Section II: Processes Introduction 8. Only by Living ThemHeidi Watts 9. Control and Contradiction in Democratic Teacher Education: Classroom and Curriculum ApproachesSuzanne SooHoo and Thomas C. Wilson 10. Democracy in Education: A Foxfire ExperienceJanet C. Fortune 11. The Democratic Process in Teacher Education: Two Case StudiesLisa A. Bloom and Mary Jean Ronan Herzog 12. Skin-Game: Race and Racism in Teaching and Teacher EducationWilliam Ayers 13. Radical Change in Assessment: A Catalyst for Democratic EducationCarol Lieber, Ed Mikel, and Sunny Pervil SECTION III: PROSPECTS Conclusion: Prospecting for Democratic Teacher EducationJohn M Novak Notes on Contributors Index