Abstract

Contributors -- both new and veteran teachers -- weigh the possibilities for making classrooms more responsive to the need for social justice, critical consciousness, and democratic values. These teachers reveal the successes and failures, rewards and frustrations, that are involved in pursuing democratic forms of classroom life. Providing a critical and incisive complement is Editor Landon Beyer's analysis of the teacher education programs from which these teachers graduated, and the political and ideological contexts in which these programs are invariably located.