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9%OFFAngelina E. Castagno - Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools - 9780816681655 - V9780816681655
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Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools

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Description for Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBTB; HBWQ; JFFJ; JFSL; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.


Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of standardization and accountability. Through rich ethnographic accounts of teachers in two demographically different secondary schools in the same urban district, Angelina E. Castagno investigates how whiteness operates in ways that thwart (and sometimes co-opt) even the best intentions and common sense—thus resulting in educational policies and practices that reinforce the status quo and protect whiteness rather than working toward greater equity.

Whereas most discussions of the education of diverse students ... Read more

Although in theory most diversity-related educational policies and practices are intended to bring about greater equity, too often in practice they actually maintain, legitimate, and so perpetuate whiteness. Castagno not only sheds light on this disconnect between the promises and practices of diversity-related initiatives but also provides insight into why the disconnect persists.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681655
SKU
V9780816681655
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About Angelina E. Castagno
Angelina E. Castagno is associate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University.

Reviews for Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
"Angelina E. Castagno's up-close look at how whiteness operates in actual schools, and within one school district, offers a rare, ethnographic portrait of how policies ostensibly aimed at effecting educational equity actually end up reinforcing the status quo. We still have much to learn about how whiteness and racism function in everyday life, and Educated in Whiteness is unusual in ... Read more

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