Tina Durand

Boston University

Dr. Tina Durand is a clinical associate professor of applied human development and chair of the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development Department at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a developmental psychologist with a background in community-based programming for families and is a former public school teacher. Her research and teaching address critically conscious teacher pedagogy, school contextual factors that promote success among ethnic minority adolescents, and home-school partnerships with diverse families. Dr. Durand’s work has employed both quantitative (e.g., correlational studies of large and small-scale secondary data) and qualitative (e.g., interview, focus group, and participatory action) methods and analytic techniques, and has included children, parents/families, teachers, community members, and school administrators. Her most recent mixed methods study examines variability in early adolescents’ perspectives on dimensions of school climate in middle school, with a focus on the salience of ethnic-racial climate and ethnic-racial identity, and their relation to students’ academic efficacy and socioemotional well-being. Dr. Durand is a recipient of the Gordon L. Marshall Fellowship for Scholarship at BU Wheelock and the Cynthia Longfellow Teaching Award at Wheelock College.