Recognizing these are common experiences for teacher educators, the contributors to this book present their struggles and achievements in developing approaches that have successfully guided students to complex understandings of such threshold concepts that impede progress toward bigger learning goals and understandings.

Foreword David Stovall 1. Introduction Paul C. Gorski, Nana Osei-Kofi, Kristien Zenkov, and Jeff Sapp 2. The Art of Teaching Intersectionality Nana Osei-Kofi 3. Overcoming Nomos Stephanie Jones and James F. Woglom 4. Learning to Tell a Pedagogical Story About Heteronormativity Mollie V. Blackburn 5. Overcoming Deficit Thinking Through Interpretive Discussion Curt Dudley-Marling 6. Teaching Against Essentialism and the "Culture of Poverty" Paul C. Gorski 7. Disrupting Denial and White Privilege in Teacher Education Darren E. Lund and Paul R. Carr 8. Teaching About Christian Privilege in the Teacher Education Classroom Warren J. Blumenfeld 9. From Literacy to "Literacies". Using Photography to Help Teachers See What Youth Can Do Kristien Zenkov, Athene Bell, Marriam Ewaida, Megan Fell, and James Harmon 10. Teaching and Learning About Immigration as a Humanitarian Issue. The Sociopolitical Context Bottleneck Edward M. Olivos 11. "You're Going to Hell!". When Critical Multicultural Queer Affirmation Meets Christian Homophobia Jeff Sapp 12. Beyond Open-Mindedness. How "Overlaying" Can Help Foster Impactful Discussions of Meritocracy in Teacher Education Jody Cohen and Alice Lesnick Contributors Index