Students as Subjects: Resistance and Collective Resilience to Challenge Barriers to Inclusion

• In Event: Youth Voices and Experiences on Civic Education, After-School Program, Teacher Whiteness, and Classroom Learning

Abstract

In May 2020, during the confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a working group was started through with high school students characterized by their great internal intersectional diversity from different parts of Spain. The starting objective was the construction of a guide to promote their schools to be more inclusive, but it was finally surpassed. Through a process Participatory Action Research and biographical research, the group was discovering the differences and similarities of their school experiences, and strengthened itself to build resistance to the oppressive conditions of several of their school experiences. Little by little they were weaving a valuable support network that managed to awaken an activist movement for the promotion of respect for diversity called ‘Students for Inclusion’.

Authors

• Luz Mojtar-Mendieta, University of Málaga
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• Ignacio Calderon-Almendros, University of Malaga
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• María Teresa Rascón Gómez, University of Malaga
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