AERA Annual Meeting: Examining the Role of Racial-Ethnic Biases in Teacher Perceptions and Decision Making

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Examining the Role of Racial-Ethnic Biases in Teacher Perceptions and Decision Making

Sun, April 14, 7:45 to 9:15am, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 13

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium session, scholars from the U.S. and Germany gather findings from four experimental studies of racial-ethnic biases in k-12 teacher practice. Drawing from implicit social cognition theory, the featured studies provide insights into how biases shape teacher expectations for students and their fine-grain instructional decisions, leading to inequities in opportunities to learn for minoritized students. The session will include brief presentations followed by a synthetic discussion of points of agreement and divergence in the studies’ methods and findings, with implications for future study design and teacher practice. The aim of the session is to surface and characterize the complex ways in which racial biases shape core dimensions of teacher practice in service of more just teacher pedagogy.

Sub Unit

SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education

Chair

Christine Margaret Rubie-Davies, University of Auckland

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Discussant

Christine Margaret Rubie-Davies, University of Auckland