Intractable self-fulfilling prophecies fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education

The American Psychologist
Rhona S WeinsteinMichael J Strambler

Abstract

The civil rights struggle for equal educational opportunity has yet to be achieved at the start of the 21st century. Inequality persists but problem and remedy are refrained from integrating schools, to ensuring equal access in resegregated settings, to closing the performance gap. As seen through ecological theory (R. S. Weinstein, 2002b), complex, multilayered, and interactive negative self-fulfilling prophecies create or perpetuate educational inequities and unequal outcomes. Society has failed to grapple with its entrenched roots in the achievement culture of schools. If this insidious dynamic is to be changed, an educational system that sorts for differentiated pathways must be replaced with one that develops the talents of all. Psychology has a critical role to play in promoting a new understanding of malleable human capabilities and optimal conditions for their nurturance in schooling.

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May 9, 2006·American Journal of Community Psychology·Rhona S Weinstein
Apr 19, 2011·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders·M Catherine CappadociaDebra Pepler
Sep 16, 2004·The American Psychologist·Thomas F Pettigrew
Nov 23, 2006·Journal of Sports Sciences·Sean P CummingRobert M Malina
Dec 18, 2013·American Journal of Public Health·Violet Kaspar
Jun 12, 2012·Journal of Youth and Adolescence·Duhita Mahatmya, Brenda J Lohman
Dec 17, 2008·Journal of School Psychology·Clark McKown, Rhona S Weinstein
Sep 7, 2006·The British Journal of Educational Psychology·Christine Rubie-DaviesRichard Hamilton

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