Understanding Diversity and Discrimination Dynamics in the Classroom
Societies around the world are become increasingly diverse as international migrant flows increase. Public education is one of the primary institutions that can foster intergroup cooperation and trust, improving social cohesion in these countries. This study uses trust-based experiments to explore the opposing forces of fractionalisation and polarisation operating within diverse classrooms in German schools. The authors find that culturally polarised environments with two relatively equally sized groups – one native-based and a one migrant-based – tend to produce the highest rates form of in-group biases and discrimination. (Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash)
