Bronwyn T Williams (2018) “Chapter 9: Metamorphosis Hurts: Literacy, Transformation, and Resistance” In Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency

• Introduction
  • resistance can come from multiple motivations, such as the desire to protect some identities
  • resistance can be a powerful conception of agency
• How transformation looks to teachers
  • teacher: to push transformation as one part of teachers’ identities
    • conservative teachers: practical skills
    • leftist teachers: critical pedagogy
  • common assumption about resistance: deviation from norm of compliance
  • unsuccess in engaging the dominant culture
  • teachers should be alert if they take unexamined assumptions as truth
• How Resistance looks to students
  • resistance might be related to their memories and sedimented experiences
  • now, school is more constructed around standardization, commodification, and judgement
  • students cannot imagine school without grades
    • students take the success in school lying in how to manage the systems of school
    • students have little power and they are judged
• Identities at school and at home
  • school is constructed by the dominant culture
  • social class: material conditions and cultural capital
  • students from the non-dominant culture: not familiar with school’s discourse
  • Bourdieu’s “habitus”
• Transformation and Loss
  • students might have their diversified intentions to attend school; some of them are related to the realistic needs of their communities.
  • so leftist teachers should understand students’ right spectrum values.
  • resistance as power against the dominant power
  • there are quotes that I can use for the TOEFL writing project.
• Implications