ABSTRACT
Entering crisis can be a condition that makes learning possible, but it can also be a condition that makes learning difficult. When students are in a state of crisis, teachers need to structure experiences that can help students to work through it. Albeit unintentionally, teachers are constantly structuring experiences when students enter crises and when students work through crises, but rather than exploring ways that crises can be helpful in challenging oppression, they often try to rid their teaching of crises. According to learning view, educated students were those who ended the school year with more than they began, and effective teachers were those who helped fill students' minds. Learning was about learning more; expanding people's minds; building a foundation of knowledge and skills; and increasing people's understanding of the world. Learning involved ending up with knowledge and skills that could not have been predicted by either the student or the teacher.
