Navigating and Resisting: A Multi-State Study of Teachers and Discriminatory Censorship Laws

In this qualitative study, the authors interviewed 25 social studies teachers across 5 different states (i.e. California, Florida, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Tennessee) to examine their experiences teaching during a political climate involving attacks on their profession through discriminatory censorship laws (DCLs). The teachers explained the various ways that DCLs were impacting students, colleagues, and themselves. Many educators engaged in resistance to these laws and the researchers captured the forms that their resistance took in practice. These acts of resistance outline different ways that educators can potentially respond to DCLs.