Tables of contents

A study of pre-service teachers’ conceptualizations of academic freedom and controversial issues

Thomas Misco, Nancy Patterson

520

Civic multicultural competence: Searching for common ground in democratic education

Jonathan Miller-Lane, Tyrone C Howard, Patricia Espiritu Halagao

551

Getting graphic with the past: Graphic novels and the teaching of history

Michael Cromer, Penney Clarke

574

Understanding pedagogical reasoning in history teaching through the case of cultivating historical empathy

Deborah L Cunningham

592

What middle school students have to say about strategy use in social studies

Leisa A Martin

631

Music and poetry as social justice texts in the secondary classroom

Rebecca M Sánchez

646

An analysis of social studies education faculty positions

Linda Bennett, Roberta Scholes, Lloyd H Barrow

667

Media Reviews: Rethinking Patriotism in the 21st Century: Pledging Allegiance

Jennifer Ponder

672

The classroom library: A place for nonfiction, nonfiction in its place

Terrell A Young, Barbara Moss, Linda Cornwell

1

An examination of preservice literacy teachers’ initial attempts to provide instructional scaffolding

Joyce E Many, Donna Lester Taylor, Yan Wang, Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Heidi Schreiber

19

Writing for comprehension

Randy Wallace, Cathy Pearman, Cindy Hail, Beth Hurst

41

Family literacy: The missing link to school-wide literacy efforts

Vicky Zygouris-Coe

57

What’s new in children’s literature? Engaging readers through series books

Barbara A Ward, Terrell A Young

71

Widening participation in postgraduate studies in Greece: Mature working women attending an e-learning programme

Marios Vryonides; Chryssi Vitsilakis

199

Parent preferences and parent choices: The public-private decision about school choice

Ellen B Goldring; Kristie JR Phillips

209

Filling in the gaps: European governance, the open method of coordination and the European Commission

Manuel Souto-Otero, Timo Fleckenstein, Rod Dacombe

231

The hegemonic positioning of 'Smart State' policy

Lenore Adie

251

The new neoliberal subjects? Young/er academics' constructions of professional identity

Louise Archer

265

Finding an identity and meeting a standard: Connecting the conflicting in teacher induction

Jim McNally, Allan Blake, Brian Corbin, Peter Gray

287

Making education reform work for the poor: Accountability and decentralization in Latin America

Ben Meade, Alec Ian Gershberg

299

Leading for quality: Questions about quality and leadership in Australia

Sue Thomas

323

BOOK REVIEWS

Michael W Apple, Meg Maguire, Barbara Martin, Jacky Brine, Allen George Duck

335

The logic of convergence and uniformity in teacher production

Steven Loomis, Jacob Rodriguez, Rachel Tillman, John Gunderson

1

Response to Loomis et al.: Convergence and uniformity in teacher production: A catalyst to create individualistic teacher education programs

Nancy G Nagel

11

Response to Loomis et al.: Information flows, knowledge transportability, teacher education and world culture

James G Ladwig

13

A reply to Nagel and Ladwig: Education as a domain of information cost

Steven Loomis, Jacob Rodriguez, Rachel Tillman, John Gunderson

17

Understanding teachers with extreme individual learning differences: Developing more effective teachers

Melodie Rosenfeld, Sherman Rosenfeld

21

Troubling teacher identity: Preparing mathematics teachers to teach for diversity

Elizabeth de Freitas

43

Outcomes of a service-learning program for pre-service teachers: Links to Butin's conceptual model

Beth Saggers, Suzanne Carrington

57

Analysing the metaphorical images of Turkish preschool teachers

Abdulkadir Kabadayi

73

Book reviews

Michael FD Young, Ian Menter

89