I created a study to explore the way the environment of the school sent students messages about their subjectivities. Within my study, I witnessed the social control that the school tried to maintain over students and the student response to it. This paper discusses a portion of the study that supports that finding. Because of the ways in which the students used the study to react to the social control, this paper also takes up the argument that, when working with students, it is part of our ethical obligation to our participants to allow them space to create resistance in their own ways rather than trying to force our own research agendas.
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