Make me!
Subtitle: understanding and engaging student resistance in school
By: Eric Toshalis
Series: Youth development and education series; Youth Development and Education series
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781612507620; 9781612507613
Subjects: Classroom management; School discipline; Problem children; Education; Behavior modification; Schuldisziplin; Schulschwierigkeiten; Erziehungsschwierigkeit; Widerstand; Verhaltensmodifikation; Unterrichtsorganisation
Description: "In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive but productive. 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 new identities 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 ... 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"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-339) and index.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Why examine resistance?; title: Understanding Resistance Theoretically. "Making trouble makes it worse": theories of social reproduction; title: "You're not the boss of me": resistance theory; title: Understanding Resistance Psychologically. "This should be different": cognition and imagination at the foundation of resistance; title: "Why should I try?": the motivations that drive opposition; title: "What? I wasn't listening": the passive no of disengagement; title: "That's not fair!": why indignation is better than resignation; title: Understanding Resistance Politically. "I'm not skipping class-you are": socioeconomic reasons for resisting school; title: "You don't even know me": identity and opposition in the classroom; title: "Don't make me assimilate": authenticity, resistance, and racism; title: Understanding Resistance Pedagogically. "How was I supposed to know?": misreading students' relational needs; title: "Is it my fault?": how we provoke resistance in the classroom; title: Conclusion: resistance is hope.