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This volume provides readers with a blueprint for the professional development of urban teachers (K-12) that fosters new communities of learning, embraces diversity, and prepares teachers through community and collaborative partnerships. Peter Murrell offers nothing less than a new system of practice for urban teacher preparation. His model of a "community teacher" encompasses more than just the subject matter taught--it also embraces the communities where urban youth live. Case studies illustrate Murrell's framework in action.

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Murrell (Northeastern Univ.) presents a format for educating teachers to meet the needs of urban children of color within a context of culturally relevant practice. Under circumstances in which practicing teachers and teacher candidates are afforded opportunity to become immersed in collaborative community partnerships where their work can be assisted and assessed, Murrell maintains that even white, culturally mainstream teachers can acquire cultural competence. He cogently argues the necessity of moving from "professional development" courses or workshops producing little that transfers directly to the classroom, to development of successful urban "community teachers" through learning and practice circles situated within instructional and community settings. Murrell, however, is curiously silent about the role of teacher candidates of color. He stresses the necessity of including parents and guardians in creating communities of practice and in defining and assessing accomplished teacher performance, but presents these individuals more as onlookers than participants with a clearly defined role in his framework. As a proposed agenda and methodology to inform the new movement toward school reform and teacher professionalism, Murrell's work is a tantalizing start that his forthcoming work on African-centered pedagogy hopefully will complete. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. M. R. LeGrow Charter Oak State College

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Peter C. Murrell, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Urban Education at Northeastern University in Boston, where he also directs the Master of Arts in Teaching Program in the Center for Innovation in Urban Education.