When students protest: secondary and high schools

Abstract

Despite the recent emergence of high school student protest action via the global climate action movement and in popular culture, this book is a cogent reminder of the extended history of student protests. Given young people’s opinions and experiences have largely gone unnoticed, both editors and authors offer a critical reminder about (and immersion in) the impact of young people’s active responses to social, political, economic and environmental issues on a global scale. Countering such interpretations via diverse examples, this book provides impressive illustrations of how young people have come to express their global collective voice to demand action on climate justice, political freedom, gender, growing social inequality and civil rights, to name but a few.