Reducing Resistance to Diversity through Cognitive Dissonance Instruction

By Elisabeth L. McFalls, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts. 2001

151 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Education

1. Nicholas A. Bowman
2. Jewell E. Cooper
3. Jay W. Brandenberger
4. Michael N. Bastedo
5. N. Denson
6. Stephen R. Porter

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Nicholas A. Bowman
2. Jewell E. Cooper

Citations in the corpus

• Strengthening the Case for Community-Based Learning in Teacher Education (2007, background): “Fear of the unknown led to strong resistance initially, which has been cited by other researchers (Brown, 2004; McFalls & Cobb-Roberts, 2001).”
• College diversity courses and cognitive development among students from privileged and marginalized groups. (2009, background): “In other words, in their efforts to alleviate students’ resistance and defensiveness (McFalls & Cobb-Roberts, 2001; Ukpokodu, 2002), many instructors of college diversity courses may focus primarily on resistance related to students’ race or ethnicity, but not on their socioeconomic status or…”