TITLE:
“Teachers Teach and Do the World Good…”: Teacher Resistance to Policies That Negatively Impacts Their Profession and Society
AUTHORS:
Keith E. Benson
KEYWORDS:
Teacher Resistance, Education, Neoliberalism, Workplace Resistance
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.3,
March
16,
2022
ABSTRACT: Both popular media and academic research abound with conveyances of teachers
exiting the profession in frustration and exasperation. Even in trying times
however, teachers, often were the vanguards in defending the sanctity of their
profession, protecting quality education for students, and pushing for a better
society for all against harmful governmental policies. This brief essay seeks
to remind educators specifically, but indeed all readers, where teachers
exhibited resistance efforts in defense of their profession in the contemporary
fight over the privatization of public education, as well as highlighted a few
instances where teachers stood up against governmental policies to benefit the
broader public.