Resisting Negative Images and Stereotypes: One Latina Prospective Teacher’s Story

Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content.

This investigation examined children's memory for stereotypic and reverse-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. In experiment 1, lists of traits and behaviors deemed typical of boys and girls were obtained from 2 classrooms of fifth-grade students. 4 experimental stories were developed from these lists of stereotypic items, each depicting a male and female character who exhibi...

The Positive (and Negative) Consequences of Endorsing Negative Self- stereotypes

How CS Teachers Change? The Story from Teachers

In this paper, we present the results of an interview study revealing how Computer Science (CS) teachers create change. We interviewed eight teachers about a year after they attended our workshops on several innovative introductory CS courses. The interview was designed to elicit the extent to which CS teachers have adopted or adapted what they learned from the workshops, and what drives or pre...

Symbols, Images and Stereotypes of Contemporary Culture

Implicit Racial Stereotypes may Temporarily Shift after Reading a Story

This study demonstrated that implicit preferences for Whites compared to Blacks can be temporarily (i.e., less than a week) reduced or reversed by reading a counterstereotypical scenario about an assault. Explicit racial associations (i.e., White = Bad, Black = Good) appear to be not a crucial component of the scenario for shifting the bias but seem to play a role in increasing the malleability...