Helen Christiansen is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Regina, Canada, and the coeditor of Recreating Relationships: Collaboration and Educational Reform, also published by SUNY Press. S. Ramadevi is Professor at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad, India and the author of Learner Autonomy in the ESL Classroom: A Study in Curriculum Design.

• ForewordSigrun Gudmundsdottir Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Opening the Conversation 1. Community and Community Building in Teacher EducationHelen Christiansen and S. Ramadevi 2. Finding New Words for Old Songs: Creating Relationships and Community in Teacher EducationMary Beattie 3. Enhancing First-Time Teaching at the Post-Secondary Level: A Story of Collaborative MentorshipKatie Flockhart and Vera E. Woloshyn Part II. Focus on Paradigms 4. The Posttraditional Community: A New Concept for a New EraLorraine M. Ling, Eva Burman, and Maxine Cooper 5. From "Common Grounds" to the "Rough Ground" of Teacher Education: Experiencing Teacher Education as a Collaborative PracticeHans Smits and David Friesen 6. Situating Ourselves Within Narrative: Reeducating the EducatorFlorence Samson, Bev Brewer, Angela Chan, Maureen Dunne, and Vicki Fenton 7. The Postmodern Challenge: Using Arts-Based Inquiry to Build a Community of Teacher Collaborators and SelvesCarol A. Mullen and C. T. Patrick Diamond Part III. Focus on Programs 8. Creating Community in Online (Electronic) EnvironmentsAnn I. Nevin, Antonette W. Hood, and Mary E. McNeil 9. Building Communities in Teacher Education: The M. Teach ExperienceRobyn Ann Ewing and David Langley Smith 10. Project Partnerships: An Account of Partnership-Based Teacher Education at Victoria UniversityBrenda Cherednichenko, Jan Gay, Neil Hooley, Tony Kruger, Rose Mulraney, and Maureen Ryan 11. Creating a Community of Teacher EducatorsMiriam Ben-Peretz and Moshe Silberstein Part IV. Closing the Conversation 12. Gathering the ThreadsHelen Christiansen and S. Ramadevi Epilogue References About the Contributors Index

"A strong contribution to the field, this will be of interest to teacher educators and future teacher educators. It also has implications for university administrators and policy makers." — Marilyn Johnston, coeditor of Collaborative Reform and Other Improbable Dreams: The Challenges of Professional Development Schools