Youth Resistance for Educational Justice: Pedagogical Dreaming from th

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Youth Resistance for Educational Justice shows how resistance, especially among minoritized groups, is an increasingly crucial dynamic of social and educational transformation. It illustrates the ways in which young people are conceptualizing and asserting more socially just educational futures through participation in social movements. In doing so, this volume affirms the need to understand... Read more

Youth Resistance for Educational Justice shows how resistance, especially among minoritized groups, is an increasingly crucial dynamic of social and educational transformation. It illustrates the ways in which young people are conceptualizing and asserting more socially just educational futures through participation in social movements. In doing so, this volume affirms the need to understand hope and dreaming as concomitant to concepts of youth resistance and educational change. Rather than focusing on top-down solutions to educational and social inequality, this book centers on grassroots and community-centered examples of resistance and social change within diverse educational settings.

Featuring a wide range of U.S. and international case studies, this book showcases the ways in which racially minoritized young people develop into social and historical actors by engaging in collective activism and organizing, as well as daily forms of individual and interpersonal resistance, within schools and other community-based contexts. These case studies bring together empirically driven narratives that highlight a range of racialized communities and gender diverse communities, in a variety of contexts (urban, suburban, and rural), to show the ways that youth create imaginative resources that interrupt dominance and envision alternative futures in these sites. With chapters focused on theory and praxis, this collection interrogates the structural barriers to educational justice, as well as the cross-cutting factors and practices that resonate across disparate contexts and communities.

With a focus on real-life actions inside schools, community learning environments, and the media, this book provides insightful conceptual tools and examples that are important for critical educational policies and practices. It will therefore be beneficial to postgraduate students and scholars in critical education, educational policy and politics, social justice education, and multicultural education.

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Biography

Miguel N. Abad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Childhood and Adolescent Development at San Francisco State University, USA. Abad has 10+ years’ experience as a youth worker collaborating with community-based and nonprofit organizations in numerous fields such as college access, career development, arts education, and social movement organizing.

Gilberto Q. Conchas is the Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Endowed Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Critics' Reviews

“Radical Imaginations and Youth Resistance in Education is a dynamic collection of essays that gives life to the many ways that students, teachers and communities work to counter and transform the multiple forms of violence emanating from educational structures throughout the United States. A must read, the book is a beautifully curated volume that brings together a dynamic array of voices that animate the rigor, commitment, and unyielding belief in radical change needed to confront and alter the current state of education.”

Damien Sojoyner, author of Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums.

“A poetic, timely volume that centers the voices of young people working to topple structures of oppression and narrates how their political imagination, creativity and resistance open pathways toward abolitionist horizons. For it is the students and revolutionary young people leading movements in educational institutions who have and will continue to show us the way toward liberation in and beyond educational institutions."

Amy E. Ritterbusch, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

“This inspiring account highlights how youth are not only critiquing systemic oppression, but also actively creating the educational, social, and political worlds they want to live in—bringing their freedom dreams to life in the here and now. The book serves as a powerful reminder to researchers and educators that Black and Latinx youth and youth social movements are already generating the knowledge needed to disrupt the racial, class, and gender inequities they encounter in their schools—if we are willing to listen.”

Rebecca Tarlau, Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University, Author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement transformed Brazilian Education

Youth Resistance for Educational Justice Pedagogical Dreaming from the Classroom to the Streets

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