The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity
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“The Price of Nice” examines how the seemingly harmless ethic of being “nice” in classrooms can quietly reinforce educational inequity. Building on Angelina E. Castagno’s critique of “educated in whiteness,” the collection explores how teachers’ default commitments to politeness, colorblindness, and equality-as-a-manner can shape everyday interactions with students and normalize unequal outcomes. Through a range of perspectives, contributors trace how good intentions become a governing frame—one that manages discomfort, avoids structural analysis, and sustains ideological habits that keep inequity in place. Thoughtful and incisive, this book offers educators, scholars, and readers a sharper lens for understanding the relationship between classroom culture, diversity, and power.
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Published Jan 1, 2019
312 pages
ISBN: 9781517905675
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2019
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eng
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