Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically. Their analyses and recommendations provide a starting point for ongoing deliberations about the nature and challenges of the field. There are no easy answers; but continuing the discussion is crucial.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Susan Adler.Chapter 2. What Social Studies Teachers Need to Know: The New Urgency of Some Old Disputes; James A. WhitsonChapter 3. Social Studies Teacher Education in an Era of Globalization; Patricia G. Avery.Chapter 4. Reflection in Social Studies Teacher Education, Revisiting the Work of Alan F. Griffin; Amy C. McAninch.Chapter 5. Social Studies Teacher Education for Urban Classrooms; Geneva Gay.Chapter 6. Practicing the Manifest of Diversity in the Social Studies: Pedagogical Fusion for Everyday Transformations; Rudolfo Chávez Chávez.Chapter 7. Beyond Tolerance: A Place for Acceptance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in Our Schools; Larry Gregg and Sue C. Thompson.Chapter 8. Technology and Social Studies Teacher Education: A Framework; Cheryl Mason Bolick.Chapter 9. Citizen/Community Participation in Education: Historic Change in Terms of Engagement; Marilynne Boyle-Baise and Carl A. Grant.Chapter 10. Continuing Professional Development for Social Studies Teachers; Linda Valli and Mark Stout.Chapter 11. Ideology, Power, and Control in Social Studies Teacher Education; William B. Stanley and Hope Longwell.Chapter 12. Epilogue; Susan A. Adler.