This book integrates ethnographic research with teacher education strategies, with the aim of preparing teachers to work with urban and low-income youth in schools and other social service agencies. Through various case studies, Gordon provides insight into how educators in diverse settings can engage students-be they preservice or veteran teachers-in the process of discovering the complexity of their students' lives, as well as their own.
Introduction 1. Students Reengaging Their Home Communities 2. Immigrants and Education: Dialogic Inquiry as Pedagogy 3. Future Teachers Assist in Urban, Low-Income, Multicultural Classrooms 4. Masks of Normality: Teacher Training on a Military Base 5. Confronting the Larger Community of Helping Professionals 6. Home Visits 7. Deconstructing Youth at Risk 8. Adult Educators Inquire into Workplace Stress 9. First Quarter Attrition: Community College Staff and Faculty Ask Why Afterword
