In this volume, renowned literacy and language education scholars who have shaped policy and practice aimed toward social justice and equity address current intellectual and practical issues in the teaching of literacy in classrooms and educational settings across diverse and international settings.

1. Critical Literacy, School Improvement, and the Four Resources Model 2. What Do We Mean By Literacy Now: Critical Curricular Implications 3. Doing Critical Literacy 4. Towards an Ecologically-Valid, Scientifically Rigorous, Theory of Learning-To-Read 5. Exploring Literacy and Identity at Multiple Timescales 6. Ethically Based Literacy Assessment Within a New Literacy Framework 7. How Affordances of Digital Tool Use Foster Critical Literacy 8. New Mobile Literacies 9. Constructing the Child at Play: From the Schooled Child to Technotoddlers and Back Again 10. Young Children's Online Practices: Past, Present and Future 11. Books and Games 12. Living in a Digital World: Literacy, Learning, and Videogames 13. (Im)Material Girls Living in (im)material Worlds: Identity Curation Through Time and Space 14. Identity, Investment, and Multilingual Literacy (in a Digital World) 15. A Critical Untangling of Adolescents' Literacy Practices and Popular Culture