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This volume identifies, problematizes, and discusses issues specific to the design of educational programs for teacher candidates from working class, ethnic- and language-minority, and immigrant backgrounds, taking as its starting point the distinctive, complex perspectives that these candidates bring to the university classroom.

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Preface; Stanley Aronowitz Introduction 1. Discovering Inquiry-based Learning Through Oral History Projects; Megan Blumenreich 2. ´I´m not just gonna settle for anything:´ Inciting Teacher Efficacy through Critical Pedagogies; Vicki Garavuso 3. Intertextuality, Music and Critical Pedagogy; Charles Malone 4. Transforming Classrooms: Teacher Education, Social Studies, and Curriculum Drama; Catherine Franklin 5. Incorporating Teacher Candidates´ Prior Beliefs and Funds of Knowledge in Theories of Child Development; Amita Gupta 6. Prioritizing the Social in Academic Writing: The Experiences of Ethnically, Linguistically and Generationally Diverse Early Childhood Teacher Candidates; Gay Wilgus 7. Special Education Teacher Preparation: Growing Disability Studies in the Absence of Resistance; Linda Ware 8. Postmulticulturalism: Cultivating Alternative Canons, a Critical Vernacular and Student-Generated Understandings of their ´Lived-Situatedness´; Gay Wilgus Appendix A: Writing Background Survey Appendix B: Interview Questions

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"This important volume puts the pedagogical tire to the road; it demonstrates the efficacy and creativity of critical classroom practice on the ground, and, in so doing, advances the cause of teacher education at a time in which many teachers and students are awakening fitfully from their hypnopompic state and reminding the rest of us that in standing idle we risk being suffocated by our own past. At a time when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, this book offers a beacon of insight into just what can be accomplished in the classroom both to enrich everyday life and to build alternative futures." - Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

"Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Postmulticulturalism takes seriously the premise that teacher candidates from working-class and non-dominant backgrounds bring a rich and highly textured perspective to their work and studies. By honoring the funds of knowledge that these students bring to their courses in teacher education, teacher educators can leverage the affordances of their experiences. This book raises important questions about the alternative canons that can be incorporated into a commitment to ´community cultural wealth´ that can be a centerpiece for the curricula in urban teacher education programs. Given the current debates concerning teacher preparation programs, this book is timely, original, and provocative." - Norma González, Professor, The University of Arizona, USA

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