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Make Me!: Understanding and Engaging Student Resistance in School (Youth Development and Education Series)
In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive butproductive. 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 newidentities 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.
The coauthor of Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators (Harvard Education Press, 2006), 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.
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.
The coauthor of Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators (Harvard Education Press, 2006), 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.
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"This text offers a thorough examination of issues related to students demonstrating challenging behaviors and resistance in today's school system... Educators, administrators, and ancillary personnel will find this text extremely insightful and, after reading it, will perhaps begin a reexamination of current professional dispositions and practices in working with students from diverse backgrounds." --G. Moreno, Choice October 2015
"Make Me! challenges our views of student resistance and forces us to examine our responses toward it while promising that both teachers and students will be better off for the effort. As educators, we come away knowing that our mission is to change the culture of the school and the classroom, not to attempt to change the student." --Stacie DeFreitas, Teachers College Record
"Make Me! deserves strong consideration by all parties concerned about the education of students from diverse communities...The compelling and thickly descriptive vignettes, coupled with poignant and skillfully related research and practical applications provide future and practicing educators with a strong case for viewing students' resistance as an opportunity to develop more conscientious and equity oriented classrooms." --Matthew J. Moulton, Educational Studies
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"Make Me! challenges our views of student resistance and forces us to examine our responses toward it while promising that both teachers and students will be better off for the effort. As educators, we come away knowing that our mission is to change the culture of the school and the classroom, not to attempt to change the student." --Stacie DeFreitas, Teachers College Record
"Make Me! deserves strong consideration by all parties concerned about the education of students from diverse communities...The compelling and thickly descriptive vignettes, coupled with poignant and skillfully related research and practical applications provide future and practicing educators with a strong case for viewing students' resistance as an opportunity to develop more conscientious and equity oriented classrooms." --Matthew J. Moulton, Educational Studies
In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive by also productive. The focus of teachers' efforts, Toshalis says, should be on reading rather than "managing" adolescent behavior and responding to it in developmentally productive and culturally responsive ways. Toshalis effectively synthesizes theory and research with vignettes of interactions among educators and students to show the possibility, rather than pathology, in student resistance.
"With poignance and skill, Toshalis shepherds educators away from yearning fro prescriptive classroom management heuristics to spaces where they embrace the 'remaking' of themselves in their journey to serve, build, and respond to the humanity of students. Make Me! is a pre-service and in-service teacher education gem that will surely improve the way classroom management is taught, understood, operationalized, and practiced." -- H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh
"Eric Toshalis offers a research-based, humanistic, and enlightened perspective and alternative that every school counselor, teacher, and administrator should read." -- Angela Valenzuela, professor, educational policy and planning program, University of Texas at Austin
"Toshalis bears witness to the charged relationships between teachers and adolescents, making sense of the frustrating dynamics of resistance through a range of thoughtful perspectives. His smart, empathic, and actionable synthesis breathes new life into the national conversation about school and classroom culture." -- Kathleen Cushman, cofounder, What Kids Can Do
Eric Toshalis is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College.
"With poignance and skill, Toshalis shepherds educators away from yearning fro prescriptive classroom management heuristics to spaces where they embrace the 'remaking' of themselves in their journey to serve, build, and respond to the humanity of students. Make Me! is a pre-service and in-service teacher education gem that will surely improve the way classroom management is taught, understood, operationalized, and practiced." -- H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh
"Eric Toshalis offers a research-based, humanistic, and enlightened perspective and alternative that every school counselor, teacher, and administrator should read." -- Angela Valenzuela, professor, educational policy and planning program, University of Texas at Austin
"Toshalis bears witness to the charged relationships between teachers and adolescents, making sense of the frustrating dynamics of resistance through a range of thoughtful perspectives. His smart, empathic, and actionable synthesis breathes new life into the national conversation about school and classroom culture." -- Kathleen Cushman, cofounder, What Kids Can Do
Eric Toshalis is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College.
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- PublisherHarvard Educational Publishing Group
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 161250762X
- ISBN 13 9781612507620
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages368
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