When children of color enter their classrooms each year, many often
encounter low expectations, disconnection, and other barriers to
their success. In The Innocent Classroom, Alexs Pate traces the
roots of these disparities to pervasive negative stereotypes, which
children are made aware of before they even walk through the school
door. The cumulative weight of these stereotypes eventually takes
shape as guilt, which inhibits students' engagement, learning, and
relationships and hurts their prospects for the future. If guilt is
the primary barrier for children of color in the classroom, then
the solution, according to Pate, is to create an Innocent Classroom
that neutralizes students' guilt and restores their innocence. To
do so, readers will embark on a relationship ""construction
project"" in which they will deepen their understanding of how
children of color are burdened with guilt; discover students'
""good,"" or the motivation behind their behaviors, and develop
strategic responses to that good; and nurture, protect, and
advocate for students' innocence. Ultimately, students will reclaim
their innocence and begin to make choices that will lead to their
success. Teachers will renew their commitment to their students.
And the current ineffective system can give way to one that
reflects a more enlightened understanding of who our children
are-and what they are capable of.
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