McNair Scholar Raúl Segura presented his McNair research, Teacher Self-Perception in Multicultural Student-Teacher relationships, evaluating biases and efforts to engage with student’s culture, this fall at the 2004 MKN Heartland McNair Research Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
In his research, mentored by Dr. Sarah Johansson, Raúl asked “is the teacher population reflective of the student’s changing population or is there a disconnect between the teacher’s background culture, language and ethnicity?”. Raúl saught to “be able to get an insight of secondary teachers in Eastern Washington on bias and student- teacher relationship building in multicultural and ethnically diverse classrooms”.
Raúl’s Further research interests revolve around student teacher relationships in multicultural settings and how they can create negative or positive impacts in the classroom, and how to create a culturally safe classroom environment.
