ERIC Number: EJ1290835
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 22
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Tell Me More about Alex: Helping Instructors Uncover and Mitigate Their Implicit Biases
To Improve the Academy, v39 n2 p161-182 Fall 2020
All instructors bring a set of unconscious or implicit biases to the classroom. These biases can negatively impact the way they interact with students, thus affecting important student outcomes (e.g., grades, sense of belonging). Facilitators leading programming on inclusive teaching may struggle to identify strategies they should include in sessions to help unearth and address these biases in others. We have created an activity that can be tailored to fit a variety of teaching contexts and audiences and that helps unveil implicit biases while potentially mitigating some challenges associated with participant responses to such conversations.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Consciousness Raising, Inclusion, Bias, Inferences, Stereotypes, Minority Group Students, Faculty Development, Role Playing, Vignettes, Student Characteristics, Demography, Group Discussion, Teaching Methods, Equal Education, Teacher Influence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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