Recent history has documented a phenomenal surge in global unrest. From Missouri to the Middle East, the world has watched waves of momentum build, peak, and dip around events such as the shooting of Michael Brown and the acquittal of Hosni Mubarak. There have been waves of mass protests of resistance, vivid expressions of human agency through the use of technology and social media, and the clear search for finding voice in spaces where the culture of silence has been the norm for decades. This quest for humanization has led, in some cases, to macro-level changes such as the fall of governments, the collapse of economic stability, and the production of immense refugee populations. It has also led to micro-level changes within individuals' decisions to no longer be silenced or accept the status quo. Although separated by vast geographic space, this book serves to link these struggles through developing understandings of common patterns within and interconnections across oppressive societal structures. While these dynamic forms of human agency can be studied from multiple perspectives, this book is guided through the powerful ideological frameworks of culture and social reproduction and looks specifically to the role of schooling as a vehicle for catalysing change.
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Researchers from North America, Australia, Iran, and Europe present 18 essays on resistance to inequality, marginalization, and limited opportunities, particularly the role of schools and education. They address institutional and historical mechanisms of inequality, including how the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development view educational equity in a global context; the increase in negative perceptions of students of new teachers in the US; the evolution of Egypt's educational system from 1954 to 2011; the educational and community interactions of working and middle-class ethnic Chinese immigrants in the Midwest; the framing of Black Lives Matter in mainstream media; the systemic discrimination of LGBT communities and the Stonewall riots as the foundation of their fight for equal rights and empowerment; and the rise of public-private partnerships in Egyptian education. The second section focuses on students, youth, and families as agents of resistance, including Asian immigrant student activists who fought against school violence and bullying; black girls' resistance to the school-to-prison pipeline; how former child soldiers in South Sudan struggle to access education; the relationship between negative school social relations, school safety, educational expectation, and academic achievement in Latino immigrant students; Egyptian youth's development in relation to education, poverty, health, opportunity structures, and challenges associated with social mobility; how black and Latino women from a predominantly white high school in the US engaged in acts of resistance; university student movements in Egypt; gender-specific religious moral dilemmas in Iranian schools; the role of everyday spaces of learning for refugee youth; Black mothers' efforts to resist ideologies and stereotypes; and white teachers and Latino students working together to discuss race and resist unjust systems. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781783504619
Author Rowhea M. Elmesky
Format Hardback
Page Count 512
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited