This book looks at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas argues that a "community" is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this collection will reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know. After the Introduction: "Communities of Difference" (Peter P. Trifonas), the book is divided into three parts. Part One: "Culture, Difference, Community," Contains the following chapters: (1) Shredding of the Social Contract: The War against Children (H. A. Giroux); (2) Tackling Difference in the Conservative Heartland of Canada (D. E. Lund); (3) Our Political State in An Age of Globalization (J. Willinsky); (4) Culture, Postmodernity and Education (B. R. Despre); and (5) Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization (P. McLaren). Part Two: "Language, Difference, Community," contains: (6) The Letter of the Law/The Silence of Letters: Poetic Ruminations on Love and School (C. Leggo); (7) Metanarratives of Emancipation (T. Norris); (8) Freirean Literacy: Difference That Makes a Difference (C. Ricci); and (9) Crossing the Postmodern Conditions that Divide (P.P.Trifonas & E. Balomenos). Part Three: "Technology, Difference, Community," contains: (10) The Technology of Difference: ASCII, Hegemony and the Internet (J. Nolan); (11) The Phoneur: Mobile Commerce and the Digital Pedagogies Of the Wireless Web (R. Luke); (12) Difference and the Internet ( J. Weiss, J. Nolan, & V. Nincic); and (13) Learning the Real, Theorizing the Virtual (P. P. Trifonas & P. Ghiraldelli Jr.)