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Oikonomidoy, Eleni – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
Relocation across national borders poses unique challenges and possibilities to newcomer immigrant students who enter diverse urban high schools. Based on focus group data with 27 newcomer students, in this article the author attends to the ways in which these students begin to counteract the challenges that relocation poses for them by…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Urban Schools, Relocation, Focus Groups
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Ives, Bob; Obenchain, Kathryn M.; Oikonomidoy, Eleni – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2012
Participants in this study were ethnic Hungarian secondary students attending high schools in Romania in which Hungarian was the primary language of instruction. Attitudes of participants toward ethnic and cultural groups were measured using a variation of the Bogardus (1933) Scale of Social Distance. Results were consistent with predictions based…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Stereotypes