Sentence examples for academic stereotypes from inspiring English sources

"It is perhaps unfortunate that all of us present day characters should have been made into two-dimensional academic stereotypes," said Professor Blackadder as Roland entered his office.

Whether or not students are able to perform up to their potential in the classroom can be influenced by their perceptions of situational pressures to perform at a high level, their anxiety about succeeding in subjects such as math, and even the awareness of negative academic stereotypes regarding the ability of the gender or racial group to which students belong.

It's not the academic stereotype, but neither is Carrasco's approach to studying Mesoamerica, the portion of Central America that developed one of the world's first clusters of great cities, the Aztec and Mayan civilizations.

She corrected me: truck drivers and chicken pluckers don't buy many books, and it's an arrogant academic stereotype to assume that anyone who doesn't teach in a university must drive a truck or pluck chickens.

Finally, black male student athletes experience significant academic stereotyping on college campuses.

This academic stereotyping is linked to longstanding and pervasive stereotypes about black men as anti-intellectual and as having innate physical abilities.

Since its introduction into the academic literature, stereotype threat has become one of the most widely studied topics in the field of social psychology.

Ten years ago, when Prentice was chair of the psychology department, she sat for a brief interview about one of her academic specialties: gender stereotypes.

"One of the more useful purposes to which a historian can devote his or her energies," writes the author, "is the correction of false historical beliefs and the elimination of simplified stereotypes". Academic, well-researched, extensively documented, "La Familia" is unlikely to capture the wide readership necessary to do away with stereotypes about Chicanos.

This status quo serves to perpetuate stereotypes: academics may think community physicians are not current, while community physicians may wonder whether academic medical center trial populations truly reflect their patients.

Peter Goldsmith, the director of the Long Island Software and Technology Network, said that Dr. Shamash had personally broken down many of the stereotypes academics have of business owners -- and vice versa -- by making the Stony Brook campus a leading business resource.