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Yablon, Yaacov Boaz – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background: Great efforts are made to develop and implement contact activities for groups in conflict, yet studies of effects of planned contact interventions yielded mixed results. Previous attempts to explain why contact interventions do not fulfill their promise focused on the contact itself. However, the main focus of the present study was the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Jews, Intervention, Student Attitudes
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Brady, Patrick – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
The adolescent peer group constitutes a vital component of the institutional culture of the contemporary secondary school. Formed among students and reinforced by administrators and teachers, it takes the form of a structured status hierarchy whose membership and boundaries are clearly understood within the school community. Individual students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Student Subcultures