Project NO BIAS
Sustainable, process-oriented teacher training to reduce migration-related stereotypes
The project aims to investigate the accuracy of judgement of trainee and experienced teachers. In particular, it focuses on the influence of stereotypes. Process data will be used to investigate teachers’ information processing and the influence of stereotypes on it, and to develop approaches to reduce the influence of stereotypes on judgements.
In NO BIAS we deal with (unconscious) biases of (future) teachers. Our aim is to identify approaches to reduce the influence of (unconscious) bias on teachers’ judgements. To do this, we are taking a closer look at teachers’ judgements. In the NO BIAS project, it is particularly important to us to work co-constructively with different educational stakeholders (teachers, school management, education policy) in order to develop measures that can be used in school practice in the long term, instead of additive special measures. The project focuses in particular on the professionalisation of teachers in the potential-oriented management of heterogeneity. The aims are
- Understand how and under what conditions teachers process information about students,
- which interventions on the part of teachers can be used to reduce disparities, and
- to implement in a sustainable way scientifically generated results and concepts developed in a co-constructive dialogue with different stakeholders (including an advisory board with expertise from science, school practice and politics).
These objectives take into account the tension between implementing policies that are compatible with research on the one hand and with practice on the other. If both sides are compatible, such concepts can be applied as long-term measures in school practice and in (university) preparation for school practice, as opposed to additive special measures.