Stereotype Threat: How It Affects Us and What We Can Do About It Speaker: Claude Steele, executive vice chancellor and provost, University of California - Berkeley; author of Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. Discussant: Pamela Mason, M.A.T.’70, Ed.D.’75, lecturer on education; faculty director, Language and Literacy Program, HGSE Introduction: James E. Ryan, dean and Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, HGSE Claude Steele, internationally renowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California - Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups, being threatened by different stereotypes, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele's book, "Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do," published in 2010, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of “stereotype threat.”

• published: 03 Nov 2014
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