The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity
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The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity
By (Author) Angelina E. Castagno
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
13th April 2020
1
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Social discrimination and social justice
379.26
Physical Properties
Hardback
312
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 38mm
Description
How being "nice" in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society Being nice is difficult to critique. Niceness is almost always portrayed and felt as a positive quality. In schools, nice teachers are popular among students, parents, and administrators. And
Reviews
"Niceness compels educators to focus on the dream, the possibility, and the effort of each individual student. Niceness deters educators from grappling with the red flags that consistently emerge in achievement, behavioral, and other data. Niceness, in other words, both enables avoidance and shields educators from doing the hard work of confronting inequity."from the Introduction
Author Bio
Angelina E. Castagno is professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University. She is author of Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools (Minnesota, 2014) and coeditor of The Anthropology of Education Policy: Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Sociocultural Process.
