Understanding what students bring to the classroom
Moderators of the effects of diversity courses on student attitudes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12475017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth R Cole (0000-0002-3124-5858, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Kim A Case (0000-0002-0914-6458, University of Houston - Clear Lake), Desdamona Rios (0000-0001-5073-0720, Bowdoin College), Nicola Curtin (0000-0003-2012-3932, Clark University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 397-405 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1099-9809 • E-ISSN: 1939-0106 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0025433 |
| PMID | 21988579 |
| OpenAlex | W2106340022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 36 |
We investigated the impact of required diversity courses on students' understanding of racial inequality and their social development with regard to racial outgroups, with a specific focus on the effects of student race and empathy as moderators of diversity course effectiveness. First-semester students (N = 173), enrolled in either diversity courses or introduction to psychology, completed surveys at the beginning and end of the semester. Diversity courses increased understanding of White privilege, acknowledgment of blatant racism, and intersectional consciousness overall, but had a greater impact on intersectional consciousness for White students compared with students of color. White students taking diversity courses experienced a reduction in Protestant work ethic ideology that was absent for White students in psychology courses and for all students of color. Notably, empathy moderated the effect of diversity courses on both outgroup comfort and willingness to act to promote diversity
Consciousness raising · Diversity (politics · Empathy · Ethnic group · Ingroups and outgroups · Outgroup · Pedagogy · Privilege (computing · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Gender Studies · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
A meta-analytical integration of over 40 years of research on diversity training evaluation
Campus Racial Incidents, Hate Crimes, and White Male and Female Students’ Racial Attitudes
Learning Race to Unlearn Racism
Explaining differences in Black and White students’ expected academic success
Understanding Racism as Systemic
Framing and Efficacy of University-Required Diversity Courses in the Research Literature
The Queer Failure of Diversity Coursework
Who Should Learn About Race in School? Lay Theories About the Relevance of Lessons About Race to Students of Color and White Students
How Social Networking Use and Beliefs About Inequality Affect Engagement With Racial Justice Movements
Racially liberatory pedagogy
Challenging the Status Quo
Ambivalent White Racial Consciousness
The Case for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs
Color-blind racial ideology
A Contested Cultural Space
Do diversity courses improve college student outcomes? A meta-analysis
Using Theatre to Change Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students
Construals of self and group
What’s hard work got to do with it? Diversity course impact on meritocracy beliefs and dialogue about race
Intersecting sexual identities, oppressions, and social justice work
Reflecting on Heterosexual and Male Privilege
Intersectional patterns of prejudice confrontation by White, heterosexual, and cisgender allies
Unpacking Student-Facing Rationales for University Required Diversity Coursework
Do Parents Matter? Examination of White College Students’ Intergroup Experiences and Attitudes
The differential impact of discrimination on health among Black and White women
Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Uniquely Predict Poverty Attributions
Transformative Learning
The Social Psychology of Stigma
Framing Inequity Safely
Diversity and Higher Education
The current state of empathy research.
Post-hoc Probing of Significant Moderational and Mediational Effects in Studies of Pediatric Populations
Inequality as Ingroup Privilege or Outgroup Disadvantage
Raising White Privilege Awareness and Reducing Racial Prejudice
Antecedents and Consequences of System-Justifying Ideologies
College diversity courses and cognitive development among students from privileged and marginalized groups
The Protestant Work Ethic
Fostering Meaningful Racial Engagement Through Intergroup Dialogues
Using outgroup comfort to predict Black students' college experiences
Intersectional Political Consciousness
What Happens When We Unpack the Invisible Knapsack? Intersectional Political Consciousness and Inter-group Appraisals
Interethnic Contact, Curriculum, and Attitudes in the First Year of College
Years After Brown v. Board of Education
Learning about Difference, Learning with Others, Learning to Transgress
The Next Generation of Diversity and Intergroup Relations Research
Race, Class and the Dilemmas of Upward Mobility for African Americans
Negotiating the American Dream
The Benefits of Diversity in Education for Democratic Citizenship
Learning about Social Diversity
The Obama effect
Emotional Reactions to Interracial Achievement Outcomes 1
Mapping the Margins
Education and Understanding Structural Causes for Group Inequalities
Ethnic Identity, Legitimizing Ideologies, and Social Status
Racial ambivalence and American value conflict
Construction and initial validation of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)
Measuring individual differences in empathy
Intersectionality and research in psychology
The Social Psychology of Stigma
Getting All Students to Listen
Generation Gaps in Attitudes Toward Sexist/Nonsexist Language
Explaining Age and Gender Effects on Attitudes toward Sexist Language
Black Students on White Campuses
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |