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Tobisch, Anita; Dresel, Markus – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Based on theories of social information processing and judgment formation, we investigated whether teachers' achievement expectations, achievement aspirations and judgments of achievement-relevant characteristics depend on students' ethnic and/or social backgrounds. Furthermore, we addressed whether judgments for minority students are negatively…
Descriptors: Teacher Expectations of Students, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Racial Differences
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Schuhbauer, Heidi; Brockmann, Patricia – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
A project to support underrepresented groups in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects is being carried out at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm (TH GSO). This project intends to counteract the shortage of specialists in the STEM occupations by supporting underrepresented…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Immigrants
Murdock, Elke; Hirt, Franziska S.; Ferring, Dieter – Journal of Research in International Education, 2014
The study on which this article is based investigated the salience of nationality in adolescents' self-concept as a function of the diversity of the school context. According to the distinctiveness postulate, people selectively attend to and encode aspects that are most distinctive. We therefore predicted that students in the nationally…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Comparative Analysis, Minority Groups, Prediction
Gedmin, Jeffrey – American Enterprise, 1994
Opinion polls do not indicate a growing neo-Nazism in Germany, but they do reveal substantial hostile attitudes toward Jews and significant bias against other ethnic minorities. Demographic trends suggest that Germany will have an increasingly multiracial society as well as a greater need for foreign labor in the future. (SLD)
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Attitudes, Demography, Ethnic Groups
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Milton, Sybil – History Teacher, 1991
Discusses the treatment of Gypsies and the handicapped by Nazi Germany. Emphasizes that Gypsy populations were decimated in the same percentages as the Jews. Presents information and dates to show parallel developments of racial regulations against Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped. Urges further research and historiography on the fate of Gypsies…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Disability Discrimination, European History, Foreign Countries