Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on the past, working within the "future": advancing a multiliteracies theory and pedagogy / Fenice B. Boyd and Cynthia H. Brock -- Part I. Exploring Languages, Language Varieties, Culture, Ethnicity, and Identities. Language study in teacher education: cultivating teachers' understandings of language variation / Debra Goodman -- "Deadly ways to learn": language variation, ideology, and learning literacies / Cynthia H. Brock, Jenni Carter, and Fenice B. Boyd -- My life in stories, my world in pictures: a view of multiliteracies from the outside in / Rachel G. Salas and Julie L. Pennington -- White male teachers exploring language, literacy, and diversity: a self-study of male perceptions of diversity(ies) / Mary B. McVee, David Fronczak, Jay Stainsby, and Chad White -- Embracing sexual diversity in classroom teaching / Lynda R. Wiest -- Designing safe places to talk about contentious topics / Fenice B. Boyd and Andrea L. Tochelli -- Part II. Exploring Languages, Language Varieties, Culture, Ethnicity, and Identities in Classrooms and Communities. Code-switching and contrastive analysis: tools of language and culture transform the dialectally diverse classroom / Rebecca Wheeler and Rachel Swords -- Tangled in Charlotte's Web: lessons learned from English learners / Claudia Christensen Haag and Margaret Compton -- Culture and identity: promoting the literacies of a Sudanese father and son / Doris Walker-Dalhouse and A. Derick Dalhouse -- Social equity teaching in action: my community is my classroom / Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and David Benjamin McMillon -- Transforming locked doors: using multiliteracies to recontextualize identities and learning for youth living on the margins / Sean Turner -- "That teacher just uses her mouth": inviting linguistically diverse students to learn / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell -- Part III. Lessons Learned about Social Diversities within Multiliteracies. Transforming practice in action / Cynthia H. Brock and Fenice B. Boyd.