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Ziegler, Suzanne – 1981
This paper summarizes research in which the public health models of epidemiological assessment and primary prevention were used to (1) determine the prevalence of ethnic social segregation among school children in Toronto, Canada; and (2) alter ethnically segregated friendship patterns in Toronto schools. A preliminary study of children aged 12 to…
Descriptors: Cultural Interrelationships, Educational Strategies, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedZiegler, Suzanne – Human Organization, 1981
An experiment using small, cooperating learning teams to increase cross-ethnic friendships was replicated in Toronto with positive results, using 146 sixth-graders from 6 schools. Cooperation in learning, rarely employed in classrooms, would lessen conflict caused by home-school differences in emphasis on cooperation/competition for indigenous…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Interrelationships
