ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations presents, for the first time, the work of leading researchers exploring the synergies and interrelationships between these fields, and provides a catalytic platform for advancing theory, practice, policy and research from an integrated perspective.

An understanding of how gender beliefs, stereotype threat, and teacher expectations interrelate is vital to creating safe, equitable, and encouraging learning spaces. The collection summarises how gender beliefs, stereotype threat, and teacher expectations act in association to influence gendered student achievement, engagement, and self-beliefs, and suggests ways toward rectifying their negative effects. The chapters are organised into four sections:

  • Gender Beliefs, Identity, Stereotypes, and Student Futures
  • Stereotype Threat
  • Teacher Expectations
  • Synergies and Solutions

By examining synergies and solutions shared between the three fields, this book creates more meaningful, consistent, and permanent approaches to achieving gender identity safety, gendered scholastic equity, well-being, and positive futures for students.

This comprehensive publication brings together cutting-edge research at the intersection of gender beliefs, stereotype threat, and teacher expectations. It is an essential reference for researchers and postgraduate students in education and gender studies as well as educational, social, and developmental psychology.

part I|72 pages

Gender Beliefs, Identity, Stereotypes, and Student Futures

chapter 2|11 pages

Transgender Inclusion and Gender Diversity in the Education System

Addressing Gender Expansiveness and Gender Justice for All Children and Youth

chapter 4|12 pages

Gender Identity and Academic Engagement

How the Perceived Fit between Students' Gender and School Work Explains Gendered Pathways in Education

chapter 5|11 pages

Gender and Early Musical Experiences

Reflections on Lessons Learned

part II|98 pages

Stereotype Threat

chapter 7|12 pages

Stereotype Threat

Overview, Current Trends in Research, and Interventions to Bolster Achievement and Learning

chapter 11|11 pages

Stereotype Threat Beyond Gender and Mathematics

The Cognitive Burden of Stigmatising Health Conditions

chapter 12|13 pages

Stereotype Threat, Ethnicity, and Gender

An American Perspective

chapter 13|13 pages

The Culture Effect

How and Why Culture Might Weaken Stereotype Threat in Non-Western Cultures

chapter 14|13 pages

Whaia te Angitū

Indigenous Māori Students' Career Aspirations—Gendered Stereotypes, Supports, and Barriers

part III|101 pages

Teacher Expectations

chapter 15|12 pages

Teacher Expectations

Considering Implications for Gender, Mathematics and Literacy Achievement, and Student Beliefs

chapter 17|13 pages

Gendered Aspirations to Study Maths—Intensive Subjects

How Perceived Teacher Expectations Matter in French-Speaking Belgium

chapter 20|13 pages

A Systematic Review on Teachers' Stereotypical Beliefs and Expectations

Effects of the Intersectionality of Students' Gender and Ethnicity

chapter 22|15 pages

Expecting Girls to Do Better in Languages and Boys to Do Better in Maths? Not Always

An Investigation of Gender Bias in Teacher Expectations in Chinese High Schools