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Educational settings such as classrooms provide important opportunities for social learning through interactions with peers. Our paper addresses the research question of whether and to what extent classroom composition characteristics make a difference. We carried out multilevel analyses based on a sample of n = 791 students in 48 classrooms (grades 5 – 7) in inclusive lower-secondary comprehensive schools in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). 22.6 % of the variance in students’ reciprocal friendship nominations were attributable to classroom-level differences. A higher average socioeconomic status and, respectively, a lower percentage of immigrant students negatively affected the number of reciprocal friendship nominations within classrooms. These results indicate that more privileged classroom settings can be related to less dense friendship networks of students. Our findings can be understood as an impulse to consider contextual factors when evaluating and addressing the social structure of classrooms in research and practice.
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Möglichkeiten, wie anhand einer die europäischen Grenzen überschreitenden Klassenpartnerschaft ein Beitrag zu mehr Weltoffenheit und -bewusstsein der jungen Generation geleistet werden kann. Die Neugier und Unvoreingenommenheit der Kinder wird genutzt, um durch persönlichen Bezug zu Menschen fremder Länder interkulturelles Verstehen zu fördern. Dabei nimmt das Konzept des "Weltethos" eine wichtige Rolle ein, als Förderer der globalen Friedenserziehung und Vermittler zwischen den Weltreligionen.