Covers fresh ground for teachers and teacher educators for whom crisis is a daily part of their work. Exploring the relationship between crisis and literacy, this work aims to improve educators' ability to recognize, cope with, and avoid crisis, and to advance their understanding of the dynamic relationship between political literacy practices. "Fresh, provocative, timely and important, this volume extends the field of sociocultural literacies in new directions."--Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los Angeles