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June 2009 > Events
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Steele Leads Spring Speaker Series
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Network on Facebook: Speakers 2009 Spring Semester.
Former Stanford University psychology professor Claude Steele engaged a standing-room-only crowd of education and psychology students and faculty and others in the Education-Psychology Library on April 1, as part of GSE’s Race, Culture and Equity Initiative (RCEI).
Steele’s engaging talk detailed his research on the stereotype threat and effective strategies to reduce its impact. Entitled “The Psychology of Social Identity: Its Role in Group Performance and the Challenges of an Integrated Society,” Steele's presented research aimed at identifying unseen pressures on the academic performance of groups whose abilities are negatively stereotyped. He reviewed evidence on how the "stereotype threat" undercuts the performance of women in mathematics and students of color in a range of academic pursuits.
“When you’re doing something for which your group is negatively stereotyped, that stereotype offers a different interpretation for your frustration and ability and it makes it feel like that frustration is an essential aspect of your group’s inferiority, and that’s what makes it disturbing,” Steele replied in response to a question from an audience member. “That’s the mechanism for which exposure to this negative stereotyping can have these threatening and interfering effects.”
Steele, who directs Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, will join Columbia University as its Provost in September.
Professor Alfredo Artiles In March, RCEI presented Alfredo Artiles, a professor of education at Arizona State University. In his talk, “Race and Dis/ability: Outlining a Cultural Historical Research Program,” Artiles outlined a framework that examined the complexities associated with the ‘racialization’ of disability.
RCEI was inaugurated in spring 2008 to provide a forum for faculty, staff and students to address race and racism in education and society. They presented six provocative speakers in 2008: Charles Mills, Prudence Carter, Bryan Brayboy, Na’ilah Nasir, Michael Omi and Christine Sleeter.
RCEI’s planning committee includes GSE faculty members Bruce Fuller, Patricia Baquedano-López, Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, Lynda Tredway and Zeus Leonardo.
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