Community Resilience

Learning environment, interaction, sense of belonging and study success in ethnically diverse student groups

What is the link between the learning environment, interaction, sense of belonging and study success?

Is the link the same for both ethnic minority students and ethnic majority students?

This paper shows that ethnic minority students appeared to feel at home in their educational program if they had a good formal relationship with teachers and fellow students. However, ethnic minority students’ sense of belonging to the institution did not contribute to their study progress.

On the other hand, in majority students, informal relationships with fellow students were what led to a sense of belonging. In these students, the sense of belonging did further academic progress.

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