There are new pressures and familiar pressures on teacher educators to prepare teachers who will be able to teach successfully in a changing world, and who will be able to change the world. The question of how to prepare well-qualified teachers has become an international question with global responses and consequences. This book describes a stance

Linda R. Kroll is Holland Professor of Early Childhood Education at Mills College

1. Learning to Teach Well in Urban Environments 2. Inquiry as a Way of Being in the World 3. Using Inquiry and Self-Study to Address Issues of Equity and Access 4. Constructing Constructivism: Learning about Learning 5. Using Alternative Modes of Representation to Provoke Inquiry into Understanding Student Learning in Literacy 6. Asking Good Questions: Making inquiry a habit of mind 7. Inquiry and Self-Study to Promoto Life-long Learning to Teach