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By:
Megan C. Day
Margaret Beale Spencer
 Professor of Urban Education in the Department of
Comparative Human Development at the University of
Chicago
 Director of Pennsylvania’s Center of Health Achievement
Neighborhood Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGE)
 Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory
(PVEST)- the foundation for her gender and race-ethnicity
focused research emphasis, which addresses resiliency,
identity, and competence formation process for diverse
youth in the united states and abroad.
Identity Model
 A child’s psychology development and racial identity
and it’s implications during childhood, focusing on
preschool and childhood.
 Racial awareness subsequently influences racial
preferences and attitudes but, is also developmentally
and culturally influenced.
What Children Think
 The white race is the ‘prefered’ race, children mostly
believe that people who are white are more ‘beautiful’
and ‘nice’ and people of color are the ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’
race.
The Doll Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyI77Yh1Gg
Racial Identity and Education
 During her studies she found that children of color
who were having trouble with their racial identity, also
had troubles in their education.
Works Cited
 http://humdev.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/spencer.s
html
 http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic
le=1203&context=gse_pubs
 http://www.diversitycelebration.com/models-ofracial-identity/