The Role Of Resistance In Education

Resistance

Resistance is a process or an act to oppose something that is against anticipated needs. It takes many forms that are all intended to achieve the ultimate goal. Historically, resistance has been known to be revolutionary in nature worldwide. Communities and nations have risen as a result of opposing the preexisting injustices, laws, cultural practices, discrimination, prejudice and other forms of oppression practiced by the dominating groups or individuals. In America, race prejudice and discrimination were once more pronounced than what is currently seen. As explained by Tuck and Wang, throughout history, resistance has been in the front to the rise of the new forms of justice and social equality (Tuck and Wang, 74). The effectiveness

The youths’ anti-school reaction is a way of expressing their feeling and oppression that they undergo through. The education system is biased, and the methods of approach do not conform to the needs of the youths. In most cases, the prevailing factors in the education system are too demanding to the young people. In America, the most affected youths are those who come from the minority groups. Worldwide, America being inclusive, the governments and other stakeholders in the education system are more focused on implementing policies against the youths instead of looking at the causes and remedies or rather how to improve the system. However, many scholars have carried out researches and come up with theories that view the youth resistance to be crucial in finding out many other issues affecting groups of human beings. The youths’ reaction against the education systems is viewed as a revolution to a new era of educational justice, and end of injustice practices within the education system. As a matter of fact, the minority youths’ reaction in American schools, symbolizes the resistance against the construction of race and

It is long due that marginalized groups, the youths inclusive, were thought not be actively involved in their judgment that could lead to acts of resistance. Tuck and Wang say, “…young people effectively and ethically embody an appetite for justice and dignity, and would thereby retreat from and challenge social relations, institutions, and dynamics that, in the Language of Du Bois, were designed to eat our young.” (Tuck and Wang, 48). This signifies that the youths can equally challenge the political systems, education systems and other unfair systems rooted in discrimination by critically analyzing what is right or wrong. Many other movements formed can similarly analyze and critically challenge the prevailing social, economic, ethnic and other different aspects observed in human beings; that provides the basis for