Trainee teachers are more likely to see black children as being 'more angry' than white youngsters, regardless of their actual emotional state, a study has concluded. The researchers found that the trainee teachers were 1.36 times more likely on average to exhibit anger bias towards black children than against their white peers. Advertisement'Essentially, we found that prospective teachers are more likely to view black children as being angry, even when they’re not,' Professor Halberstadt said. 'The more biased prospective teachers were, the more likely those prospective teachers were to give white children the benefit of the doubt. The team noted that higher levels of racial bias did not make it more likely that the trainee teachers would exhibit racialized anger bias against black children — however, it did make them less likely to interpret white children as being angry.

Source: Daily Mail July 07, 2020 13:34 UTC