Download or read book How Family Affects Chinese American Students High Academic Achievement written by Yu-Hua Chiu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring how Families Influence the High Academic Achievement of Chinese American Students written by Peter H. S. Chun and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Asian American Achievement Paradox written by Jennifer Lee and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Americans are often stereotyped as the “model minority.” Their sizeable presence at elite universities and high household incomes have helped construct the narrative of Asian American “exceptionalism.” While many scholars and activists characterize this as a myth, pundits claim that Asian Americans’ educational attainment is the result of unique cultural values. In The Asian American Achievement Paradox, sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou offer a compelling account of the academic achievement of the children of Asian immigrants. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the adult children of Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees and survey data, Lee and Zhou bridge sociology and social psychology to explain how immigration laws, institutions, and culture interact to foster high achievement among certain Asian American groups. For the Chinese and Vietnamese in Los Angeles, Lee and Zhou find that the educational attainment of the second generation is strikingly similar, despite the vastly different socioeconomic profiles of their immigrant parents. Because immigration policies after 1965 favor individuals with higher levels of education and professional skills, many Asian immigrants are highly educated when they arrive in the United States. They bring a specific “success frame,” which is strictly defined as earning a degree from an elite university and working in a high-status field. This success frame is reinforced in many local Asian communities, which make resources such as college preparation courses and tutoring available to group members, including their low-income members. While the success frame accounts for part of Asian Americans’ high rates of achievement, Lee and Zhou also find that institutions, such as public schools, are crucial in supporting the cycle of Asian American achievement. Teachers and guidance counselors, for example, who presume that Asian American students are smart, disciplined, and studious, provide them with extra help and steer them toward competitive academic programs. These institutional advantages, in turn, lead to better academic performance and outcomes among Asian American students. Yet the expectations of high achievement come with a cost: the notion of Asian American success creates an “achievement paradox” in which Asian Americans who do not fit the success frame feel like failures or racial outliers. While pundits ascribe Asian American success to the assumed superior traits intrinsic to Asian culture, Lee and Zhou show how historical, cultural, and institutional elements work together to confer advantages to specific populations. An insightful counter to notions of culture based on stereotypes, The Asian American Achievement Paradox offers a deft and nuanced understanding how and why certain immigrant groups succeed.

Download or read book Educational Achievement of Asian American Students written by Xianglei Chen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Socio cultural Historical and Educational Factors Influencing the Academic Achievement of Chinese Americans written by Miguel Guillermo López and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How the Family Influences Children s Academic Achievement written by Shui Fong Lam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the interactive effects of family status and family process on children's academic achievement, drawing on research with a group of students in two inner-city schools to illustrate how parenting style mediates the influences of family structure and socio-economic status on academic performance. Concludes that an integrated model is superior to the traditional view of family status and process as independent factors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Perceptions of High Socio economic Chinese american Parents about Their Children s Academic Achievement Home Environment and Chinese Language Proficiency written by Wenzhong Yang and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese-American students excel in school in the United States and Chinese Americans are described as a â€model minority.†Although many studies exist concerning parents' behaviors and their children's academic achievement, little research has been conducted on parental perceptions of Chinese Americans. This study was designed to explore and investigate the perceptions of high socio-economic Chinese-American parents about their children's academic achievement, home environment, and Chinese language proficiency. This exploratory study employed a mixed-methods design. Survey research methods were used to gather data about parents' background and perceptions of their children, followed by in-depth interviews. The sites for this study were weekend Chinese schools in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. A self-administrated survey, Parental Perceptions Survey, was completed by a random sample of 209 parents (136 parents of G/T students and 73 of average students) from different backgrounds. Ten parents of gifted/talented students participated in the follow-up interviews to probe parental perceptions and activities more deeply. This study opened a window that allowed researchers to better understand the perceptions of the group of Chinese-American parents identified as a â€model minority,†many of whom have children who excel at school. Descriptive statistics indicated that Chinese-American parents had high expectations for their children's educational success, valued education and effort, tended to sacrifice for their children's education, followed a â€training†parenting style, and tried to maintain their unique Chinese heritage and culture. When comparing parental perceptions between different groups (parents of gifted/talented vs. average students, fathers vs. mothers, parents of boys vs. those of girls, and parents of different backgrounds), using MONOVAs followed by ANOVAs procedures, significant differences were found between parents with different occupational status in parental perceptions of their children's academic achievement, and between parents with different income levels in parental perceptions of their children's Chinese language proficiency. Significant differences were also found between the groups of gifted/talented versus average students in parental activities related to academic achievement and Chinese language proficiency. No significant differences were found in other groups. Bivariate correlation analyses indicated that parental perceptions and activities were highly positively correlated.

Download or read book Academic Success of East Asian Americans written by Yongsook Lee and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race at the Top written by Natasha Warikoo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The suburbs hold a privileged place in our cultural landscape not just for their wide, manicured lawns and quiet streets, but often for their high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, and they have allowed many white Americans to safeguard their privilege by using their kids' public school educations to secure places at top colleges. But nonwhite parents also see the advantages to be had by sending their kids to those excellent suburban schools, and, increasingly, those that can afford to are finding ways to move in, all in hopes of helping their kids get a leg up as they apply to college and prepare for careers. In Getting Ahead, Staying Ahead, Natasha Warikoo takes us into an elite suburban high school in the Northeast she calls Collegiate High, examining the ways that white parents react when Asian American kids start beating their children at the meritocracy game. Asian American kids whose parents have moved into the Collegiate school district are pushed to succeed in the school's top-notch academics, and they often wind up taking spots at the top of the class previously held exclusively by white students. After generations of privilege and success, white parents don't just take this lying down. Instead, they go to the school with complaints that the academic environment has become too rigorous, petitioning the principle to mandate less homework. The academic climate, they declare, is bad for kids' mental health. Above all, they find new ways of gaining advantages, pushing their kids to excel in extracurriculars like sports and theater and diminishing the importance of top academic performance at the school. Even when they are bested, white families in Collegiate work hard to change the rules in their favor so they can still remain the winners in the meritocracy game."--

Download or read book Chinese Heritage Students in North American Schools written by Wen Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive look at Chinese-heritage students’ academic, sociocultural, and emotional development in the public schools examines pertinent educational theories; complex (even inconvenient) realities; learning practices in and outside of schools; and social, cultural, and linguistic complications in their academic lives across diverse settings, homes, and communities. Chinese-heritage students are by far the largest ethnic group among Asian American and Asian Canadian communities, but it is difficult to sort out their academic performance because NAEP and most state/province databases lump all Asian students’ results together. To better understand why Chinese-heritage learners range from academic role models to problematic students in need of help, it is important to understand their hearts and minds beyond test scores. This book is distinctive in building this understanding by addressing the range of issues related to Chinese-heritage K-12 students’ languages, cultures, identities, academic achievements, and challenges across North American schools.

Download or read book Adolescent Academic Achievement in Chinese Immigrant Families written by Natalie Younok Ammon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian immigrant population is growing more rapidly than any other group in the U.S. (Social Science Data Analysis Network, 2004), and Chinese Americans represent the largest Asian subgroup (U.S. Census Bureau, 2002). Assuming recent trends continue, the number of first- and second-generation Chinese children will increase dramatically, and their developmental needs will demand special attention. Using structural equation modeling to analyze two waves of data from a study on 444 Chinese families, this project aims to provide a better understanding of the relations between family members' adaptations to life in the U.S. and adolescents' academic grade point average (GPA). Chinese children of immigrants have been found to succeed in school (Fuligni, Tseng, & Lam, 1999). However, little is known about the ways in which their academic achievement may be related to acculturation, the process through which an individual or group makes socio-cultural or behavioral adjustments through repeated contact with another group or culture (Gordon, 1964; Berry, 2003). Exploring the variation in acculturative processes among Chinese immigrant family members and identifying how the various acculturative strategies may relate to adolescent academic achievement would bridge a gap in the extant literature. Therefore, the first objective of this study was to assess whether fathers', mothers', and adolescents' individual acculturation to American and Chinese cultures were related to adolescents' GPA. The second goal was to test for moderation effects in these relations. Interaction terms were created for parents' acculturation in relation to adolescents' acculturation to test whether the connections between adolescents' acculturation to the American and Chinese cultures and adolescents' GPA were conditional on either fathers' or mothers' American or Chinese orientation. Third, this study included two culturally salient factors as mediators of potential relations found between individual and dyadic acculturative processes and adolescents' academic achievement. These mediators were adolescents' sense of family obligation and adolescents' level of behavioral academic engagement. The fourth and final objective was to assess whether there was invariance by adolescent gender in the structural model.

Download or read book The Effects of Structural and Cultural Conditions on the Academic Achievement of East Asian American Students written by Bae-Sik Hong and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of Chinese American and African American Parents in the Academic Achievement of Their Children written by Tyrone Tanner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding the Difference in Educational Experiences for Chinese American Students and Their Parents written by Mei Yin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high level of academic achievement of Asian immigrants' children has attracted a great deal of attention from media and scholars. As the largest minority group in the US, the educational experience of Chinese American students deserves more research attention, and it is different from that of their Chinese parents. In this study, a grounded theory approach with open-ended interviewing was used as the dominant collection method for a qualitative study to illuminate voices and stories that are unobtainable from a quantitative investigation. From the different educational experiences in Chinese American students and their parents, this study showed that educational experiences impacted Chinese immigrant parents and led them to have high educational expectations for their children. This expectation became a crucial motivation of Chinese American students for their academic achievement. This study also showed that peers might influence Chinese American students' achievement. In addition, non-academic activities and personal interests also played important roles in aiding Chinese American students' school performance. This qualitative study may enhance our understanding on Chinese culture and Chinese American students' schooling. KEYWORDS: Academic Achievement, Chinese American Students, Chinese Immigrant Parents, Educational Experiences, Educational Expectations.

Download or read book Family Variables in the Academic Socialization of Asian Americans written by Zhenyu Xu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asian American Parenting written by Yoonsun Choi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families. Delving beneath longstanding generalizations and assumptions that have often hampered intervention with this diverse and growing population, expert contributors analyze the intricate dynamics of generational conflict and child development in Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian American households. Wide-angle coverage identifies critical factors shaping Asian American family process, from parenting styles, behaviors, and values to adjustment and autonomy issues across childhood and adolescence, including problems specific to girls and young women. Contributors also make extensive use of quantitative and qualitative findings in addressing the myriad paradoxes surrounding Asian identity, acculturation, and socialization in contemporary America. Among the featured topics: Rising challenges and opportunities of uncertain times for Asian American families. A critical race perspective on an empirical review of Asian American parental racial-ethnic socialization. Socioeconomic status and child/youth outcomes in Asian American families. Daily associations between adolescents’ race-related experiences and family processes. Understanding and addressing parent-adolescent conflict in Asian American families. Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women’s self-harm and suicidality. Asian American Parenting is vital reading for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases who seek specific, practice-oriented case examples and resources for empowering interventions with Asian American parents and families.

Download or read book Chinese American and White Adolescents Reasoning about Academic Achievement written by Lin Flachmeier Cerles and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: