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Book The Asian American Achievement Paradox

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.

Book Asian American Education

Download or read book Asian American Education written by Meyer Weinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First historical work to analyze the entire range of Asian-American education & provide American readers with info. about highly individual ethnic groups rather than lumping all Asian-Americans together into one all-inclusive category.

Book Chinese Heritage Students in North American Schools

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.

Book Model Minority Myth Revisited

Download or read book Model Minority Myth Revisited written by Guofang Li and published by IAP. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in the book series on educational research sponsored by Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association (CAERDA, www.caerda.org).

Book Academic Success of East Asian Americans

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:

Book Understanding the Difference in Educational Experiences for Chinese American Students and Their Parents

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.

Book Educational Achievement of Asian American Students

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:

Book Educational Practices in China Korea and the United States

Download or read book Educational Practices in China Korea and the United States written by Chuang Wang and published by IAP. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written by a diverse cohort of both of American educators, including professors, teachers, school counselors, and school administrators from pre-K to college levels. Most of the contributors come from disciplinary areas of English as a second language and school administration. With the pressure of Common Core State Standards Initiative, American educators are now shifting their focus to standards-based instruction. Meanwhile, Chinese educators are moving away from national standards and developing state level curriculum and instruction to meet specific needs of the students in local provinces. There is also a debate about whether or not to use the National College Entrance Examination as the only test for college admission. Some provinces (e.g., Zhejiang and Hubei) are administering their own college entrance examinations. The book outlines the sociocultural roots of education in the three countries, linking the tradition and philosophical orientations to each country's own history of education. Furthermore, the book compares and contrasts the curriculum, especially the teaching of English as a second/foreign language, in three countries. This book examines the stress of students, physical education, various pedagogical styles in foreign language education as well as instructional texts and cross-cultural dialogue between teachers. Additionally, the book explores factors that influence parent's involvement and women's educational and career aspirations. Lastly, the book presents modern technologies such as smart learning technologies and online learning platforms not only to facilitate future educational systems but also to promote international exchanges. The chapters of the book are thematically diverse, but they help to provide inspirations for educators both in American and Asian countries. The findings offer alternative practical lenses for educational community to seek for some "middle ground" between Chinese, South Korea and American education. The intended audience for this book is graduate students, teachers, administrators, and professionals in education.

Book Complementary Education Cultural Models

Download or read book Complementary Education Cultural Models written by Joe Chung Fong and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adolescent Academic Achievement in Chinese Immigrant Families

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.

Book Accommodation and Resistance Among Chinese American High School Students

Download or read book Accommodation and Resistance Among Chinese American High School Students written by Stanford Taro Goto and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Achievement Motivation in Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans

Download or read book The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Achievement Motivation in Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans written by John Tsung-Han Wu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Family Affects Chinese American Students High Academic Achievement

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: