Explores how family literacy practices are connected to social institutions that sustain or transform participants' awareness or reproduction of class identities and the inequities inherent in these interactions. Looks at the complexity of one African-American, working-poor family's literacy practices in their connections to social institutions.…

Considers that one way to create teacher education programs that build strategies for culturally engaged teaching is through cultural memoir and photography. Presents a study addressing the challenges of multicultural teacher education and the potential of culturally engaged teacher education. (SG)

Maintains that early formative experiences have a strong impact on the way beginning teachers think about teaching and about becoming professionals, and that teacher training institutions must accommodate and deal with the autobiographies of preservice teachers; otherwise, future beginning teachers will teach as they were taught. (SR)

Presents a case study of one fourth-grade teacher researcher. Documents the teacher's initial reticence toward teacher research, how being part of a group was central to her participation, and how her preferences for methods of data collection and methods for presenting teacher research findings differed from the preferred methods of the group…