Preliminary Material / Deborah Tidwell and Linda Fitzgerald -- Woodstock to Hip-Hop: Convergent Lifeline and the Pedagogy of Personal Quest / Patrick Pritchard and Andre Mountain -- A Self-Study on Raced and Gendered Discourse: Seeking Internalized Oppressions and Practices / Timothy Spraggins -- Revisiting Feminist Authority Through a Co/Autoethnographic Lens / Monica Taylor and Lesley Coia -- A Marxian approach in education / Victoria Perselli -- Teacher Identity Formation in a Multicultural World: Intersections of Autobiographical Research and Critical Pedagogy / Michael Vavrus -- Nurturing Cognitive Dissonance in New Teachers: in Search of Pedagogy That Supports Social Justice / Helen Freidus -- Learning to Address Issues of Equity and Access Through Inquiry in a Student Teaching Seminar: A Self-Study / Linda R. Kroll -- Diversity / Katheryn East -- Dispositions for Teaching for Social Justice / Linda May Fitzgerald , Christine Canning and Catherine Miller -- Teaching all Children Mathematics: How Self-Study Made a Difference / Hafdis Gudjonsdottir and Janina Vala Kristinsdottir -- Using our Subjective Experience: Teaching Curriculum / Ayani Good and Peter Pereira -- "That's what I am Here for": Images of Working Lives of Academic and Support Staff / Morwenna Griffiths , Joseph Windle and Margaret Simms -- Revealing the Diverse Self in Self-Study: The Analysis of Artifacts / Mary Phillips Manke and Jerry Allender -- Nodal Moments as a Context for Meaning / Deborah Tidwell -- Author Bios / Deborah Tidwell and Linda Fitzgerald -- Subject Index / Deborah Tidwell and Linda Fitzgerald -- Author Index / Deborah Tidwell and Linda Fitzgerald.

Self-study and Diversity is a book about self-study of teaching and teacher education with equity and access as focal issues of practice. Chapters in this book have a shared orientation to diversity grounded in the acknowledgement that educators have a responsibility to address equity and access issues inherent in teaching. To that end, individual chapters address such areas of diversity as race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and power, as well as broader areas of social justice, multiculturalism, and ways of knowing. Even though the focus in a chapter may be on one particular dimension of diversity, the dilemmas and responses of a teacher educator, elicited through self-study, can apply well beyond that immediate context. This broadens the appeal of the book beyond the self-study community and beyond specific issues of diversity, to people interested in teaching in general and in the process of improving practice. An additional strength of this book is the inclusion in each chapter of information regarding the use of particular strategies, both for self-study and for teaching for diversity. A separate index of these suggested research and teaching practices will direct the reader to specific chapters.

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