Foreword / Linda Darling-Hammond
Introduction and overview / Cynthia A. Tyson, Arnetha F. Ball
Part I: Historical context and persisting challenges: Preparing teachers for diversity
Diversity and teacher education: a historical perspective on research and policy / Carl Grant and Melissa Gibson
Creating interdisciplinary multicultural teacher education: courageous leadership is crucial / Valerie Ooka Pang and Cynthia D. Park
Researching successful efforts in teacher education to diversify teachers / Christine E. Sleeter and H. Richard Milner IV
The meaning of culture in learning to teach: the power of socialization and identity formation / Etta R. Hollins
Part II: Current trends and innovations in research on diversity: implications for teacher education
A. Centering research on diverse populations in teacher education
Teacher education, struggles for social justice, and the historic erasure of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives / Therese Quinn and Erica R. Meiners
Crossing boundaries, studying diversity: lessons from preservice teachers and urban youth / Valerie Kinloch
Power in community building: learning from indigenous youth how to strengthen adult-youth relationships in school settings / Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
"Something to brag about": black males, literacy, and diversity in teacher education / David E. Kirkland
Preparing teacher education candidates to work with students with disabilities and gifts and talents / Michelle Trotman Scott and Donna Y. Ford
Researching speakers of nondominant languages in teacher education programs: tapping into perceived barriers to promote teaching and learning in diverse contexts / Mandie Uys, Maryna Reyneke, and Kotie Kaiser
B. Frameworks, perspectives, and paradigms in research on diversity: implications for research in teacher education
A critical race theory analysis of past and present institutional processes and policies in teacher education / Thandeka K. Chapman
"I am large, I contain multitudes": teacher identity as a useful frame for research, practice, and diversity in teacher education / Brad Olsen
Teaching native youth, teaching about native peoples: shifting the paradigm to socioculturally responsive education / Tiffany S. Lee
Worthy witnessing: collaborative research in urban classrooms / Maisha T. Winn and Joseph R. Ubiles
The principal facts: new directions for teacher education / Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade
Part III: Future trends and directions: an agenda for the work that still needs to be done
Embracing complexity and community in research on multicultural teacher education / Kenneth Zeichner
Teacher education for diversity: policy and politics / Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Kim Fries
"Placing equity front and center" revisited / Sonia Nieto and Kathy McDonough
Asking the right questions: a research agenda for studying diversity in teacher education / Gloria Ladson-Billings
Preparing teachers for diversity in the twenty- first century / Arnetha F. Ball and Cynthia A. Tyson.
