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This book shows how resistance is a crucial dynamic of educational transformation and illustrates how young people are asserting more socially just educational futures through participation in social movements. It centers on grassroots and community-centered examples of resistance and social change within diverse educational settings.
List of contents
Introduction
Section 1: Freedom Dreaming and Theorizing Through the Cracks 1. Finding
"Faaji" in a Cyborg Makerspace, or Learning to Carve a 'Loophole of Retreat' 2. La Facultad en el Valle: Rural Latinx Youth Resisting Deficit Depictions of their College-Goingness and Envisioning Alternative Futures 3. "Never Had a Chance to Imagine a Future Where I could Be Free"; Theorizing Back and the Right to the Word and the World 4. Alternative Dreams: School Pushout and Latinx Student Resistance in Continuation High School 5. Healing is a Human Right: Lessons from Levanto
Section 2: From Radical Imaginations into Organized Action 6. #NoTeenShame: Storytelling and radical dreaming across and beyond generations of Pregnant & Parenting Youth 7. The Circle Keepers: Birthing A School Based Restorative Justice Youth Leadership Cohort as Abolitionist Praxis 8. Quest to be Heard: How Oakland Students Demanded Equity Innovations During a Period of Rapid Change 9. Jailbreak! Students, Parents and Teachers Practicing Fugitivity and Freedom Dreaming 10. Blueprints for Liberation: Harnessing Black & Latinx Youth Resistance & Dreaming through Critical Design
Section 3: Creative Pedagogical Experiments 11. Centering Black Children's Worldmaking Visions: Considering what it means to co-facilitate liberatory space to freedom dream with Black children 12. The Intersection of Pedagogical Dreaming & Technology: Towards a Critical Race Techno-Pedagogical Imagination 13. Educators as Questgivers: Adult Tensions and Youth Dreaming in Youth Participatory Action Research 14. Reclaiming Student-Teacher Affinity Spaces as Creative Sites of Racial Justice 15. "It was all a dream...": Inspiring the next generation of Black male educator activists
About the author
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.
