Make Me!: Understanding and Engaging Student Resistance in School

by Eric Toshalis

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612507611
• ISBN13: 9781612507613
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"