Routledge International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations presents, for the first time, the work of leading researchers exploring the synergies and interrelationships between these fields, and provides a catalytic platform for advancing theory, practice, policy and research from an integrated perspective.

An understanding of how gender beliefs, stereotype threat, and teacher expectations interrelate is vital to creating safe, equitable, and encouraging learning spaces. The collection summarises how gender beliefs, stereotype threat, and teacher expectations act in association to influence gendered student achievement, engagement, and self-beliefs, and suggests ways toward rectifying their negative effects. The chapters are organised into four sections:

• Gender Beliefs, Identity, Stereotypes, and Student Futures
• Stereotype Threat
• Teacher Expectations
• Synergies and Solutions

By examining synergies and solutions shared between the three fields, this book creates more meaningful, consistent, and permanent approaches to achieving gender identity safety, gendered scholastic equity, well-being, and positive futures for students.

This comprehensive publication brings together cutting-edge research at the intersection of gender beliefs, stereotype threat, and teacher expectations. It is an essential reference for researchers and postgraduate students in education and gender studies as well as educational, social, and developmental psychology.

Penelope W. St J. Watson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. Her research interests are gender stereotypes and identity, gendered self-beliefs and expectations, and gender stereotype threat. She centres her interest in gender within the social psychology of the classroom.

Christine M. Rubie-Davies is a Professor at The University of Auckland. Her research interests are teacher expectations and beliefs that moderate expectancy effects, notably for disadvantaged groups. Widely published, she is an elected Fellow of three organisations. In 2023, she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Bernhard Ertl is full Professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr München. His research interests focus on factors that influence career decisions, persistence, and performance. His research roots are embedded in how learning with media research can implement support for students–and informing about gender stereotypes in the context of media.