Rethinking educational innovations: Embracing loving resistance in the classroom

At first glance, the idea of innovation appears concomitant with the culture of technopoly. Innovation suggests that we must move forward to make improvements over current conditions. Inherent to a faith in technology is the belief that we can make improvements to technology to solve the problems we face collectively, especially in the classroom context. In this article, I propose that Neil Postman’s articulation of the loving resistance fighter offers a space in classrooms for a form of innovation that allows us to return to environments of the past, environments that develop a sense of resistance.