Last updated by kprzemek on 2017-03-25. Originally submitted by tomski on 2016-12-01.
WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures Series features internationally renowned scholars visiting the Faculty of English to share their research and professional expertise with WA faculty and students.
Teaching and Learning as Social Processes:
Insights from Social Psychology
by
Prof. Janet Schofield
Thursday, December 01, 2016, 18.30, C1
Everyone more than welcome to attend!
Teaching and learning are complex social processes, often impacted by factors other than obvious ones such as the curriculum, teachers’ subject matter knowledge, hours spent in the classroom and students’ motivation and prior preparation. This talk focusses on other aspects of the societal context as well as teachers’ and students’ beliefs, behavior and experiences that my research in social psychology suggests impact students’ educational achievement. These factors include societal stereotypes regarding how aspects of personal identity such as gender or ethnicity relate to likely performance, teachers’ expectations for students and students’ sense of belonging to their educational institutions.
Prof. Janet Schofield is a distinguished social psychologist. Her research interests include: intergroup relations, effect of computers on classroom social processes, school desegregation, social psychological approaches to increasing college retention. She was Chair of Social Psychology Program at the Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh (2002 – 2009). Professor Schofield held research affiliations with National Institute of Education, Washington, D.C. and Policy Research Division, Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D.C. Her first book Black and White in School: Trust, Tension or Tolerance (1982) won the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. Professor Schofield consulted for Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (2000), Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice (2000), Assistant Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C. (1999). Prof. Janet Schofield has published 5 books and more than 130 articles.
