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Kyung-Hwa, Lee; Seong-Hun, Kim; Ga-Hyung, Lee – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
This study investigated the influence of South Korean university students' contact experiences with North Korean refugee university students on social identity and integrated conflicts. The study was conducted with students in years 1-4 of university enrolled in S University in Seoul. Data from 446 participants were gathered. Pearson's correlation…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Intergroup Relations, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Nguyen Luu, Lan Anh; Boreczky, Ágnes – Intercultural Education, 2022
This study was carried out among teachers in Budapest in 2016-17. It aimed at revealing teachers' views on multiculturalism and multicultural education, together with their conceptualisations of migrants. When constructing a framework of interpretation, we believed that views on multicultural education and attitudes concerning migrants would be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Teacher Attitudes, Multicultural Education
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Kiang, Lisa; Brunsting, Nelson C.; Tevis, Tenisha; Zachry, Corinne; He, Yueying; Takeuchi, Risa – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2021
The present study explores how international students' (IS; N = 169; M[subscript age] = 19.81 years, 36% male) identity fusion, the extent to which they feel connected with a particular social group, is concurrently and longitudinally correlated with belonging, loneliness, well-being, and perceived social support. IS reported higher fusion with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Correlation, Well Being
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Rodenborg, Nancy; Dessel, Adrienne – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
The Council on Social Work Education requires students to understand how diversity and difference shape human experience. But segregation prevents students from appreciating the circumstances of others' lives and how widely human experience differs by race, religion, and other social identities. This teaching note presents the Social Contact…
Descriptors: Social Work, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Counselor Training
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Edwards, Sachi – Journal of College and Character, 2018
Current literature about religion in higher education typically emphasizes belief as a central component of religious identity. Through framing this discourse with a critical social justice lens, I argue that there needs to be a purposeful distinction between religious/spiritual belief and religious identity/culture in order to acknowledge the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Religious Factors, Religion, Social Justice
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Fontana, Giuditta – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2018
To what extent does the adoption of consociational power-sharing affect the design and implementation of education reforms? This article maps this territory through rich and detailed interviews collected in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2012-2013. Insights from these interviews are corroborated by…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Conflict Resolution, Peace, Cross Cultural Studies
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Schachner, Maja K.; Schwarzenthal, Miriam; van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Noack, Peter – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
As schools are becoming more culturally diverse, it is crucial to understand how they can approach this diversity in ways that allow all students to feel included and do well. We focus on the manifestation of two related but distinct approaches to cultural diversity, namely "equality and inclusion" (i.e., promoting positive intergroup…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
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Yip, Tiffany; Douglass, Sara; Shelton, J. Nicole – Child Development, 2013
This study examined the daily-level association between contact with same-ethnic others and ethnic private regard among 132 Asian adolescents (mean age = 14 years) attending four high schools ranging in ethnic composition diversity. The data suggest a positive daily-level association between contact with same-ethnic others and ethnic private…
Descriptors: Asians, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Self Concept
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Martin, Nathan D. – Journal of College and Character, 2015
In this study, the author analyzed panel data on elite university students to test prominent explanations for how college attendance affects religious identities and behaviors. Results from random-effects logistic regression showed that in-college religiosity was primarily a function of pre-college religious background. While the secularization…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, College Students, College Attendance, Religion
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Alvarez Valdivia, Ibis M.; Schneider, Barry H.; Carrasco, Cecilia Villalobos – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2016
The purpose of this study was to determine the links between school adjustment, friendship, and identification with both the cultures of origin and with the host culture. Our overriding hypothesis was that integration in Berry's terms, that is, simultaneous identification with both the culture of origin and the majority Spanish/Catalan culture,…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Immigrants, Friendship, Predictor Variables
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Peifer, Janelle S.; Yangchen, Tenzin – SAGE Open, 2017
College students' intercultural competence (ICC) has become a focus of many higher education institutions. Yet, more work can be done to explore what variables play a role in this complex and multifaceted process. The current study investigated the association between the outcomes (i.e., cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains of ICC),…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Concept, Cultural Awareness, Correlation
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Tannenbaum, Michal; Essa, Rania – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This paper examines the relationship between language and identity in the Israeli conflictual situation, exploring the perceptions of Israeli Arab adolescents in two different contexts: a mixed city and a homogeneous Arab town. Adolescents in the mixed city, although more exposed to Hebrew and to Jewish culture, develop a stronger sense of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Municipalities, Jews, Student Attitudes
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Knifsend, Casey A.; Juvonen, Jaana – Social Development, 2013
To supplement research on adolescent social identities, the current study examined how social identity complexity relates to ethnic inter-group attitudes in a young adolescent sample (N = 97; "age range" = 12-14 years). Social identity complexity refers to the perceived overlap of groups with which youth align themselves. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Role, Self Concept, Case Studies, Ethnic Groups