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Publication details [#56615]

Dejaeghere, Yves, Marc Hooghe and Ellen Claes. 2012. Do ethnically diverse schools reduce ethnocentrism? A two-year panel study among majority group late adolescents in Belgian schools. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 36 (1) : 108–117.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | classroom conversation | ethnocentrism | intergroup communication | social relationship

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This two-year Belgian Political Panel Study (BPPS, 2006–2008) demonstrates that there is no mechanical impact of ethnic diversity on ethnocentrism reduction in Belgian late adolescent classrooms, but that, as stated by Allport and Pettigrew's contact theory, this effect depends upon the perceived quality of intergroup relations.