Make Me!: Understanding and Engaging Student Resistance in School

Author:   Eric Toshalis
Publisher:   Harvard Educational Publishing Group
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9781612507613


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   28 February 2015
Format:   Paperback
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In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive butproductive. All too often treated as a matter of compliance, student resistance can also be understood as a form of engagement, as young people confront and negotiate newidentities in the classroom environment. The focus of teachers’ efforts, Toshalis says, should not be about “managing” adolescents but about learning how to read their behavior and respond to it in developmentally productive, culturally responsive, and democratically enriching ways. Noting that the research literature is scattered across fields, Toshalis draws on four domains of inquiry: theoretical, psychological, political, and pedagogical. The result is a resource that can help teachers address this pervasive classroom challenge in ways that enhance student agency, motivation, engagement, and academic achievement. The coauthor of Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators (Harvard Education Press, 2006), Toshalis blends accessible explanations of theory and research with vignettes of interactions among educators and students. In Make Me!, Toshalis helps teachers perceive possibility, rather than pathology, in student resistance.

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Author:   Eric Toshalis
Publisher:   Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Imprint:   Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781612507613


ISBN 10:   1612507611
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   28 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"CONTENTS CHAPTER 1  Why Examine Resistance? 1 PART I UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE THEORETICALLY  Vignette: Determined 17 CHAPTER 2 ""Making Trouble Makes It Worse"" Theories of Social Reproduction 19 CHAPTER 3 ""You're Not the Boss of Me"" Resistance Theory 41 PART II UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE PSYCHOLOGICALLY Vignette: School Is Not His Thing 91 CHAPTER 4 ""This Should Be Different"" Cognition and Imagination at the Foundation of Resistance 63 CHAPTER 5 ""Why Should I Try?"" The Motivations That Drive Opposition 93 Vignette: Super Busy 121 CHAPTER 6 ""What? I Wasn't Listening"" The Passive No of Disengagement 123 Vignette: I'm Done 147 CHAPTER 7 ""That's Not Fair!"" Why Indignation Is Better Than Resignation 149 PART III UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE POLITICALLY  Vignette: Sick of It 173 CHAPTER 8  ""I'm Not Skipping Class--You Are"" Socioeconomic Reasons for Resisting School 175 Vignette: It's Not About the Pencil 201 CHAPTER 9  ""You Don't Even Know Me"" Identity and Opposition in the Classroom 203 Vignette: Be Respectful 221 CHAPTER 10 ""Don't Make Me Assimilate""  Authenticity, Resistance, and Racism 223 PART IV UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE PEDAGOGICALLY Vignette: Back Off! 251 CHAPTER 11 ""How Was I Supposed to Know?"" Misreading Students' Relational Needs 253 Vignette: Panther Points 275 CHAPTER 12 ""Is It My Fault?"" How We Provoke Resistance in the Classroom 277 CHAPTER 13 Conclusion Resistance Is Hope 299 Notes 311 Acknowledgments 341 About the Author 345 Index 347  "

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Make Me! deserves strong consideration by all parties concerned about the education of students from diverse communities...The compelling and thickly descriptive vignettes, coupled with poignant and skillfully related research and practical applications provide future and practicing educators with a strong case for viewing students' resistance as an opportunity to develop more conscientious and equity oriented classrooms. --Matthew J. Moulton, Educational Studies Make Me! challenges our views of student resistance and forces us to examine our responses toward it while promising that both teachers and students will be better off for the effort. As educators, we come away knowing that our mission is to change the culture of the school and the classroom, not to attempt to change the student. --Stacie DeFreitas, Teachers College Record This text offers a thorough examination of issues related to students demonstrating challenging behaviors and resistance in today's school system... Educators, administrators, and ancillary personnel will find this text extremely insightful and, after reading it, will perhaps begin a reexamination of current professional dispositions and practices in working with students from diverse backgrounds. --G. Moreno, Choice October 2015


This text offers a thorough examination of issues related to students demonstrating challenging behaviors and resistance in today s school system... Educators, administrators, and ancillary personnel will find this text extremely insightful and, after reading it, will perhaps begin a reexamination of current professional dispositions and practices in working with students from diverse backgrounds. --G. Moreno, <i>Choice</i> October 2015


This text offers a thorough examination of issues related to students demonstrating challenging behaviors and resistance in today s school system... Educators, administrators, and ancillary personnel will find this text extremely insightful and, after reading it, will perhaps begin a reexamination of current professional dispositions and practices in working with students from diverse backgrounds. --G. Moreno, Choice October 2015


Toshalis bears witness to the charged relationships between teachers and adolescents, making sense of the frustrating dynamics of resistance through a range of thoughtful perspectives. His smart, empathic, and actionable synthesis breathes new life into the national conversation about school and classroom culture. Kathleen Cushman, cofounder, What Kids Can Do


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Eric Toshalis is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College, USA.

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