Uniquely links the 21st century changes in diversity to global events and their continued impact on local K-12 classrooms

Makes a compelling case for critical, theoretical and research-based approaches to practical educational issues and reform

Addresses specific global forces such as the refugee crisis, Islamophopia, and GLTBIQ issues that impact K-12 education

Foreword: Rethinking and Enacting 21st Century Diversity in Hard Times; Ming Fang He.- 21st Century Diversity, Educational Equity and Transformative Change; Suniti Sharma & Althier Lazar.- Part I: Theoretical Discourses on Neoliberalism, Coloniality, and Decolonization of Knowledge in Education.- Not Everyone Gets a Seat at the Table: The Language Games of Diversity and How to Subvert Them; Nicole Capriel Ferry & Jonathan Mark Torres.- A Political Ontological Approach to Decolonization of Ethnographic Research in Education; Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores & JoAnn Phillion.- Embracing the Otherness of Others: An Approach for Teacher Educators to Assuage Social and Political Tribalism; Sonja Varbelow.- Counter-Narratives of Two Native Women in Education; Angela Jaime & Taylar Stagner.- Part II: Critical Research on Teacher Preparation, K-12 Classrooms, and Educational Change.- How Preservice Teachers Transform Pedagogical Discomfort into Multicultural Knowledge for Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline; Suniti Sharma.- Bridging the Gap Between African Refugee Parents and K-12 Teachers: Expanding the Meaning of School Diversity; Wangari Gichiru.- The Song-Hunting Project: Fostering Diversity in Music Education; Antía González Ben.- Phenomenology as a Path to English as a Second Language (ESL) Praxis, Curriculum and Theory-Making; Weena Gaulin.- Part III: Transformative Practice for Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century.- Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Conversations about Race, Culture, and Transformative Pedagogy in an Urban-Based Professional Learning Community; Althier Lazar & Danielle Nicolino.- Teachers' Storied Cultural Tensions of Curriculum as a Standardizing Practice; Candace Schlein, Christa Wenger & Sara Crump.- Repositioning Art Education within Educational Equity in K-12 Urban Schools: A Partnership between Philadelphia Public Schools and the Barnes Foundation; Carolyn L. Berenato.- Engaging Difference in the Digital Age: Learning with/from Three Somali-Canadian, Muslim, Female YouTubers; Diane Watt, Kayf Abdulqadir, Fartousa Siyad & Hodan Hujaleh.