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- Title
THE PARADOXES, PERILS, AND POSSIBILITIES OF TEACHER RESISTANCE IN A RIGHT-TO-WORK STATE.
- Authors
CONVERTINO, CHRISTINA
- Abstract
Based on an ethnographic study, this article provides an account of teacher resistance to neoliberal assaults on public education in a right-to-work state. Specifically, teachers in this study appropriated the strong charter legislation in Arizona as a "contested cultural resource" (Levinson & Sutton, 2001, p. 3) to achieve progressive educational change given the specific strategies of a neoliberal rationality in that context. In so doing, this study documents: 1) how teachers produce resistance to neoliberal assaults on public education when more recognizable pathways are not available, and 2) the significance of individual property rights to a neoliberal rationality and public education in a right-to-work state. Consequently, this study highlights the "perils" involved in partial representations of teacher resistance that fail to recognize resistance in all forms and in all places, including public non-profit charter schools. In so doing, this article offers an alternative representation of the "possibilities" involved in "paradoxical" forms of teacher resistance.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RIGHT-to-work laws; PUBLIC education; TEACHER organizations
- Publication
Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 2016, p89
- ISSN
1715-0094
- Publication type
Article