Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Personal Prologue; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Examining Crisis; 2 Commentators' Introductions; Part I Reading and Writing in Times of Crisis; 3 Making Contact in Times of Crisis: Literacy Practices in a Post-Katrina World; 4 "Hallelujah!": Bible-Based Literacy Practices of Children Living in a Homeless Shelter; 5 Reactions to Divorce: Communication and Child Writing Practices; 6 Reading and Writing Teenage Motherhood: Changing Literacy Practices and Developing Identities
Summary
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
