Bad boys,good girls? Implicit and explicit attitudes toward ethnic minority students among elementary and secondary school teachers |
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| Institution: | 1. Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Institute for Educational Research, School of Education, Gaußstraße 20, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany;2. Medical School Berlin, Germany;1. Sam Houston State University, United States;2. University of Johannesburg, South Africa;3. Indiana University, United States;1. Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;2. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;3. Department of Psychology, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain;1. Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;2. Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
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| Abstract: | Teachers’ attitudes toward ethnic minority students might differ by students’ gender and the type of school teachers are working in because of different motivations for teaching and different school practices. Hence, the aim of the current research was to investigate elementary (n = 82) and secondary school (n = 82) teachers’ implicit and explicit attitudes toward male and female ethnic minority students. Teachers worked on either a male or a female Implicit Association Test and filled out a gender-specific questionnaire for measuring explicit attitudes. The results showed that elementary and secondary school teachers had negative implicit attitudes toward ethnic minority students, independent of students’ gender. Whereas secondary school teachers were implicitly more positive toward boys, elementary school teachers were implicitly more positive toward girls. Elementary school teachers were more enthusiastic about teaching ethnic minority boys than girls. The findings provide the first insights into differences in attitudes between elementary and secondary school teachers. |
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| Keywords: | Implicit attitudes Explicit attitudes Ethnic minority students Student gender Elementary School Secondary school |
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