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Liza Bondurant; Liesl McConchie – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
The concept of a learner's identity in mathematics is complex and multifaceted. Based on a review of the relevant research, the authors believe most factors that influence one's mathematical identity fall within these four categories: (1) past mathematics experiences; (2) personal beliefs and efficacy; (3) future self-representation and belonging;…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Self Concept, African American Students
Carly Busch – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Similar-identity role models, including instructors, can benefit science undergraduates by enhancing their self-efficacy and sense of belonging. However, for students to have similar-identity role models based on identities that can be hidden, instructors need to disclose their identities. For concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs) - identities…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Role Models, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept
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Alexander, Patricia – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
In the UK, government and educational stakeholders perceive the problem with boys' disaffection and underachievement in school as due to a lack of role models. In political role model discourses Black or Ethnic Minority (B.E.M.) teachers are recruited to modify the behaviour of B.E.M. boys, without attaching any blame to the systemic racism they…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Role Models, Minority Group Teachers, Blacks