Introduction - Alison Phipps and Manuela Guilherme 1.Betraying the Intellectual Tradition: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Youth - H. Giroux, (Penn State University) 2.Academic Literacy in Post-colonial Times: Hegemonic Norms and Transcultural Possibilities - J. Turner (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 3.Articulating Contact in the Classroom: Toward a Constitutive Focus of Critical Pedagogy - Keith E. Nainby (Hartnell College, San Jose), John T. Warren and Christopher Bollinger (Bowling Green State University) 4.

Listen to the Voices of Foreign Language Student Teachers: Implications for Foreign Language Educators - Rosario Diaz-Greenberg (California State University San Marcos) and Ann Nevin (Arizona State University West, Phoenix).