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
22nd October 2019
1
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Educational strategies and policy
Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
379.26
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Paperback
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
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"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.
