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Her research interests include community education, culturally responsive and multicultural teaching, and democracy and social justice in education. She has published and presented on topics related to community and education, critical qualitative research, and critical constructivist approaches to teaching and learning social studies. She has several years ofK-12 teaching experience in both social studies and outdoor education.  \nIntroduction  \nIn the United States, preservice teachers often graduate and go on to work with students whose backgrounds are different from their own and in communities in which they have limited lived experience (Sleeter 2000). This holds significant implications for teacher education programs given the importance of life and educational experiences in informing teaching and learning knowledge and practicesand the subsequent impact of these practices in shaping the experiences and trajectories of students’ lives. As Villegas (2007) observes,“given the salient role that schools play in shaping students’ life chances and the obligation that teachers have to teach all students fairly, teacher education can ill-ignore the conspicuous pattern of disparities in the distribution of school benefits across groups”(371) .  \nThis compels approaches to teacher education, including multicultural education (Banks and Banks 2009; Nieto and Bode 2011; Sleeter and Grant 2007) and culturally responsive teaching (Gay 2010; Villegas and Lucas 2002) that attends to issues related to diversity and equity, and that enables preservice teachers to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to develop responsive teaching and learning practices (Villegas 2007) . Such approaches are often united by an emphasis on social justice. Though discussion and debate continue as to what constitutes teaching for social justice or social justice teacher education (McDonald and Zeichner 2009; Cochran-Smith et al. 2009), this concept can be understood broadly as an approach to education “that aims to have all students reach high levels of learning and to prepare them for active and full participation in a democracy”(Villegas 2007, 372) .  \nWhile there remains a “lack of clarity in the field at large about what constitutes social justice teacher education”(McDonald and Zeichner 2009, 595), it is apparent that the development of responsive practices requires more than content knowledge, and that knowledge of students and their communities is central to these approaches (Sleeter 2008a; Wadell 2013) . However, many preservice teachers enter and  \nEducational Considerations 29  \ngraduate programs without opportunities to investigate the important role of community in education (Koerner and Abdul-Tawwab 2006). Community-based learning has been advocated as a potentially powerful approach to encourage preservice teachers to consider issues related to community, education, diversity, and equity by providing opportunities for personal experiences related to these issues (Boyle-Baise 2005; Murrell 2001; Sleeter, 2000), as well as to advance social justice goals by “helping student teachers learn about the funds of knowledge and structures and social networks that exist in the communities where their pupils live”(McDonald and Zeichner 2009, 604). The purpose of this article is to share “specific program practices” intended to prepare and support teachers to “teach from a social justice perspective”(McDonald and Zeichner 2009, 596) through the integration of community-based learning into teacher education. 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