This book offers suggestions for teacher educators to encourage preservice teachers to construct and expand their own skills and techniques for culturally responsive teaching. The book's 3 parts offer 12 chapters. Part 1 focuses on the perceptions of those grappling with culturally responsive practice. Part 2 suggests ways that attention to culture can influence the manner in which teachers approach instruction. Part 3 discusses various approaches to teacher education practice. The chapters are as follows: (1) "The Presence of an Absence: Issues of Race in Teacher Education at a Predominantly White College Campus" (Pearl M. Rosenberg); (2) "Confronting Issues of Race and Power in the Culture of Schools: A Case Study of a Preservice Teacher" (Jane Agee); (3) "Teacher Efficacy: How Do Teachers Feel about Their Abilities to Teach African American Students?" (Valerie Ooka Pang and Velma A. Sablan); (4) "Culture: A View Toward the Unexplored Frontier" (Michael Webb); (5) "The African Advantage: Using African Culture to Enhance Culturally Responsive Comprehensive Teacher Education" (Mwangaza Michael-Bandele); (6) "Multicultural Content Infusion by Student Teachers: Perceptions and Beliefs of Cooperating Teachers" (Michael Vavrus and Mustafa Ozcan); (7) "Prospective Teachers Constructing Their Own Knowledge in Multicultural Education" (Sharon Adelman Reyes, Nayda Capella-Santana, and Lena Licon Khisty); (8) "Culturally Literate Teachers: Preparation for 21st Century Schools" (Claudette Merrell Ligons, Luis A. Rosado, and W. Robert Houston); (9) "What Difference Does Preparation Make? Educating Preservice Teachers for Learner Diversity" (Andrea Guillaume, Carmen Zuniga, and Ivy Yee); (10) "Pursuing the Possibilities of Passion: The Affective Domain of Multicultural Education" (Francisco A. Rios, Janet E. McDaniel, and Laura P. Stowell); (11) "Multicultural Education in Practice: What do Teachers Say?" (Constance L. Walker and Diane J. Tedick); and (12) "Old Messages with New Meanings" (Mary E. Dilworth). (All chapters contain references.) (SM)