Chapter 1 Introduction: From Critique to New Scripts and Possibilities in Teacher Education

Chapter 2 Problematising Teachers’ Work in Dangerous Times

Chapter 3 Rediscovering Discourses of Social Justice: Making Hope Practical

Chapter 4 Preparing Teachers as Informed Professionals: Working with a Critical Ethnographic Disposition and a Socially Democratic Imaginary

Chapter 5 Reconceptualising Teacher Standards: Authentic, Critical and Creative

Chapter 6 Teachers as Classed Cultural Workers Speaking Back Through Critical Reflection

Chapter 7 Unsettling Class: Standpoint Pedagogies, Knowledge and Privilege

Chapter 8 Critical Engagement with Whiteness: Beyond Lecturing on the Evils of Racism

Chapter 9 ‘Undoing’ Gender and Disrupting Hegemonic Masculinity: Embracing a Transgender Social Imaginary

Chapter 10 Strategic Confrontation: Within and Against Conservative Refusals

Chapter 11 Studying Culture Jamming to Inspire Student Activism

Chapter 12 Big Expectations for Little Kids: The Crisis in Early Childhood Education

Chapter 13 Whispering to the Hippopotamus About the ‘Literacy Boomerang’: Literacy Wars and Rumours of Wars

Chapter 14 Critical Engagement with Literacy and Qualitative Research: Towards Socially Just Pedagogy in the Teacher Education Classroom

Chapter 15 Performing ‘Hope’: Authentic Story, Change and Transformation in Teacher Education

Chapter 16 A Socially Critical HPE (aka Physical Education) and the Challenge for Teacher Education

Chapter 17 Critical Voices in Teacher Education

Chapter 18 Sustainability: Ambiguity and Aspiration in Teacher Education

Chapter 19 Afterword: We Can Enact Change