Do anti-immigrant sentiments track into Danish classrooms? Ethnicity, ethnicity salience, and bias in children's peer preferences

International Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 312-322

  Wagner, Judith T ^a   Camparo, Lorinda B ^a   Tsenkova, Vera ^b   Camparo, James C ^c  

^a WHITTIER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic group; In group out group favouritism; peer relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449104951     PISSN: 08830355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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