The 13 papers contained in this document represent a selection of presentations from a national forum on teacher education which addressed empowerment and professionalization of teachers. The papers are: (1) "Imagining Preservice Teachers" (Alison Brennan, M. Serra Goethals, Rose Howard); (2) "Corsini 4R Schools Empower Teachers" (Paul Clark); (3) "Teacher Empowerment: An Unanticipated Benefit from a Clinical Schools Approach to Teacher Education" (Edgar Epperly, Nicholas Preus); (4) "Captive Leaders: Problems of Classroom Authority and Institutional Power in Teaching" (Susan Florio-Ruane); (5) "Educational Philosophy and Teacher Empowerment" (Maxine Greene); (6) "Teacher Empowerment Begins with the College of Education" (Patti Horn) (7) "Empowering Teachers: How the Teacher Education Programs Contribute to Professional Status, Knowledge, and Decision Making" (Donnie Lawrence); (8) "Throwing a Little Acid on the Teaching Profession" (Joseph McDonald); (9) "Empowerment for Teachers in Multicultural Schools: Inviting the Teaching-Learning Exchange" (Charlotte Reed, Mary Diez); (10) "Parodox and Paradigm: University Leadership and Teacher Empowerment" (Kenneth Schuler); (11) "Teacher Empowerment and Administrator Training: Adversarial or Collegial Notions" (James Smith); (12) "The Foxfire Approach and Teacher Empowerment: Partnerships with Small Colleges" (Sharon Teets); and (13) "Alienation as the Conceptual Foundation for Incorporating Teacher Empowerment into the Teacher Education Knowledge Base" (Michael Vavrus). (SM)