(a) Project Details

Term: 01 May 2022 to 30 April 2023 (12 months)

Funding: University of Augsburg

Team:

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Gegenfurtner, Methods in Learning Research

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartinger, Primary School Pedagogy and Didactics

• Prof. Dr. Markus Dresel, Psychology

(b) Project Description

The project ELIAS focuses on implicit associations of pre-service teachers with student heterogeneity in classrooms. Based on intergroup contact theory, self-categorization theory, and the working model of teacher competence to deal with heterogeneity, ELIAS includes two sub-studies: (a) sub-study ELIAS-T examines attitudes toward students with a Turkish migrant background and (b) sub-study ELIAS-H examines attitudes toward students with a homosexual orientation. Using a parallel QUAN + qual mixed-method design, we measure attitudes with an implicit association test (IAT), survey scales, a feeling thermometer, eye tracking, and a qualitative interview. Both sub-studies aim at estimating the extent to which pre-service teachers' implicit attitudes are associated with explicit attitudes, social contact, group membership, gender, political orientation, and subjective religiosity. A second aim of ELIAS is to use eye tracking for analyzing differences in fixation duration and pupil dilation while reading consistent and inconsistent category-attribute pairs in the IAT. The project contributes to better understanding antecedents of teacher professionalism when dealing with student diversity, particularly with ethnic and sexual minority students.

(c) Project-Related Literature

• Gegenfurtner, A. (2021). Pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward transgender students: Associations with social contact, religiosity, political preference, sexual orientation, and teacher gender. International Journal of Educational Research, 110, 101887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101887
• Gegenfurtner, A. (2022). Einstellungen von Lehramtsstudierenden gegenüber Schüler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund: Die Bedeutung des sozialen Kontakts und des demographischen Hintergrunds. Bildung und Erziehung, 75(1), 41–58. https://doi.org/10.13109/buer.2022.75.1.41
• Gegenfurtner, A., & Gebhardt, M. (2018). Sexualpädagogik der Vielfalt: Ein Überblick über empirische Befunde. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 64(3), 379–393. https://doi.org/10.3262/ZP1803379
• Gegenfurtner, A., Hartinger, A., Gabel, S., Neubauer, J., Keskin, Ö., & Dresel, M. (2023). Teacher attitudes toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual students: Evidence for intergroup contact theory and secondary transfer effects. Social Psychology of Education, 26(2), 509–532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09756-w
• Hagenauer, G., Gegenfurtner, A., & Gläser-Zikuda, M. (2022). Grundlagen und Anwendung von Mixed Methods in der empirischen Bildungsforschung. Springer.
• Hartinger, A., Dresel, M., Gegenfurtner, A., Matthes, E., Nett, U. E., & Peuschel, K. (Eds.). (2022). Lehrkräfteprofessionalität im Umgang mit Heterogenität. Waxmann.
• Nett, U. E., Hartinger, A., Dresel, M., Matthes, E., Peuschel, K., & Gegenfurtner, A. (2022). Förderung der Lehrkräfteprofessionalität im Umgang mit Heterogenität in der Schule. In A. Hartinger, M. Dresel, A. Gegenfurtner, E. Matthes, U. E. Nett, & K. Peuschel (Eds.), Lehrkräfteprofessionalität im Umgang mit Heterogenität. Waxmann.
• Tobisch, A., & Dresel, M. (2017). Negatively or positively biased? Dependencies of teachers’ judgments and expectations based on students’ ethnic and social backgrounds. Social Psychology of Education, 20(4), 731–752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-017-9392-z