Rebellious Education

Joyful Teaching as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia

Teachers in Southern and Appalachian spaces reveal their experiences of enacting their practice in challenging situations, balanced with purposeful pedagogies and powerful accounts of teaching as an act of joyful resistance, pushing back against the false narratives plaguing the profession.

Featuring accounts of P-12 educators, Rebellious Education: Joyful Teaching as Resistance in the American South and Appalachia offers a rebellious counter-narrative to the modern tale that teaching is a profession void of joy. Like the teaching profession itself, the American South and Appalachia are areas with juxtaposed narratives, both romanticized and villainized in popular culture. In this book, teachers in Southern and Appalachian spaces reveal their experiences of enacting their practice in challenging situations, but this is balanced with purposeful pedagogie