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What Do You Believe You Believe?

By Tracy Crow
Categories: Continuous improvement, Equity
October 2016
Vol. 37 No. 5
Discussing our beliefs about people whose race, religion, or socioeconomic backgrounds differ from our own can get uncomfortable. For one thing, we may not feel safe saying what we really believe. For another, we may not know how to speak skillfully about such topics in productive ways. A new study from the Yale Child Study Center exposes another reason it can be difficult to talk about topics like race: Sometimes our biases are implicit rather than explicit (Gilliam, Maupin, Reyes, Accavitti, & Shic, 2016). As the study demonstrated, educators’ unconscious biases shape their expectations for and interactions with children. In the study, researchers showed video clips to teachers, asking them to hit a key when they saw challenging behavior. Using eye scan technology, the researchers

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Tracy Crow

Tracy Crow (tracy.crow@learningforward.org) is director of communications for Learning Forward.

References

Gilliam, W.S., Maupin, A.N., Reyes, C.R., Accavitti, M., & Shic, F. (2016, September 28). Do early educators’ implicit biases regarding sex and race relate to behavior expectations and recommendations of preschool expulsions and suspensions? New Haven, CT: Yale Child Study Center.

U.S. Department of Education. (2016, June 7). 2013-2014 civil rights data collection: A first look. Washington, DC: Author.


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