School-university partnerships for educational change: an introduction / Faisal Islam ... [et al.] -- Understanding rurality in the troubling context: prospects and challenges / Robert Balfour, Claudia Mitchell, and Relebohile Moletsane -- School-university partnerships in preparing new teachers: possibilities and limitations / Faisal Islam -- Transforming teacher education?: a rural teacher education project experience / Claudia Mitchell ... [et al.] -- The challenge of teaching in under-resourced schools: a reflection on preservice teachers' journals / Vitallis Chikoko -- Taking photographs, forming partnerships / Patricia Staniforth and Caitlin Wake -- Finding allies and making connections in rural classrooms in addressing HIV and AIDS / Katie MacEntee -- A university-school partnership in preparing preservice teachers to work in rural schools: a case study of blogging / John Pascarella -- After-school engagement activities, teacher education, and service learning in a rural school in KwaZulu-Natal: challenges and opportunities / Rodney Handelsman -- Youth as knowledge producers: re-visioning teacher/learner roles through extracurricular activities / Jean Stuart, Dorothe Raht, and Jessica Smith -- What do schools gain?: one school's perspective on the school-university partnership / Faisal Islam -- The experiences and expectations of mentor teachers in two rural schools / Martin Combrinck and Mari van Wyk -- Landscape shapes mindscape: partnerships as agency in a community of learning / Jane Pennefeather -- "What will we do with 24 ducks?": building community partnerships / Naydene de Lange and Martin Combrinck -- New teachers for new times -- and new places / Claudia Mitchell ... [et al.].