In "Parallel Practices," a social justice-focused elementary teacher educator narrates her own experience with the rationale for selected lessons from critical literacy, equity-oriented multiculturalism, and pedagogical practice courses. She examines the -parallel practice- implications of her own curriculum with graduate students for the work her students will do with children. Regenspan situates her practices in a unique interpretation of John Dewey's thinking - one that suggests a standpoint for both her own curriculum-making and that of her students in opposition to the division of labor into thinking work and doing work. Using Dewey's later thinking, which calls for the integration of -mind-body in wholeness of operation, - Regenspan insists that the work of social justice-focused education is equally political and spiritual."