This book is intended for both beginning and experienced teachers who face many difficult challenges in today's desegregated school. Teachers must come to feel and recognize the many contingencies of the desegregated classroom if it is to be a place for learning. Because social class segregates children as often as does race, the major question posed in this book is how teachers can integrate into one classroom children of different races and socioeconomic backgrounds. The how-to-do-it sections of this book are intended to help prospective teachers apply new information, sensitivity, and insight to specific day-by-day situations. The situations range widely from first-day welcome to absenteeism. Issues directly relating to these situations also are discussed: from the nature and applicability of discipline to the appropriateness of curriculum. In addition to day-to-day expertise, teachers need a global perspective on integration if the nature of pluralism is to be understood and if integration is to work in the classroom. In a sense the international racism that obstructs world peace and the problems that face teachers in pluralistic classrooms are based on the same issues. For this reason the appendixes include one United Nations document, two UNESCO articles, and a brief excerpt from Pearl S. Buck's autobiography. The bibliography lists many materials and resource organizations teachers can use to sharpen their awareness. (Author/JM)