Download or read book Understanding the College Experiences of Cambodian American Students written by Jennifer Tang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This qualitative research examined the various factors that shape the experiences of 13 Cambodian Americans at a large, public institution in California. Cambodian American students are often overlooked in academe because of the model minority myth, but they earn lower academic achievements than the stereotype indicates. Findings revealed personal, cultural, social and educational factors that influenced and motivated the students. Although students believe in the value of education, family and culture have a greater impact on their college lives. Participants confronted the challenges of being underrepresented Asian Americans and first generation college students. Institutions need to better support the students by creating an inclusive learning environment in and outside the classroom.

Download or read book We Take the Same Road written by Ny Siv Chhuon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research project is concerned with Cambodian American students' undersentation in higher education. While numerous studies have been done on Asians heir success in the American Educational School System, few have focused their repreand tattention on Cambodian American students. The under-representation of Cambodian Americans in higher education appears to be a function of the model minority myth, family's socioeconomic status, parental expectations, and cultural influences. The struggles of Cambodian Americans to adapt into mainstream culture have altogether been ignored, and it is time that we take a closer examination of Cambodians and begin to understand their status here in the United States. In this study, I specifically addressed the ways Cambodian student's socioeconomic status, parental expectations, and cultural influences played a vital role in Cambodian students' decision whether or not to pursue a college education. I also examined their schooling process here in America, and a role school played in their current decision. I focused on the Long Beach area because Long Beach is home to the largest growing Cambodian American community in the United States (Rambaut, 1995). A significant proportion of refugees reside in Southern California; approximately 40% of them are concentrated in urban metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties (Rambaut, 1995). I took a qualitative approach in conducting my research. Several individual indepth interviews were conducted. These interviews supplied me with vivid detailed 6 narratives of the student's perception of what their parents' expectations and cultural influences were. A closer examination of Cambodian students' socioeconomic status allowed me to see whether or not socioeconomic privilege correlates to the pursuit of higher education at a four year university as opposed to a community college. Lastly, a glance at my interviewees' schooling process provided me with an insider's perspective in their schooling process and shed some light as to why there is an under-representation of Cambodian Americans in higher education. I drew upon theorist such as Randal Collins (1974), Michael Omi (1994), Howard Winant (1994), Patricia Hill Collins (1990), and Yen Le Espiritu (2003) to help understand the social circumstances that led up to the under-representation of Cambodian Americans in higher education. Discussions on conflict theory, racial formation, matrix of dominance, and notions of home were all included in this work to help broaden reader's understanding how and why Cambodian Americans are an oppressed group. Findings from this research gave valuable insight to some of the multiple barriers that Cambodian American students experience in their pursuit for higher education at a four year university. Through this research, I hope scholars and outreach coordinators can better understand the needs of Cambodian American students and address them accordingly to ensure the success of Cambodian Americans once they are enrolled in four year universities.

Download or read book Cambodian American College Students written by Vichet Chhuon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational policy usually overlooks Cambodian American students as a unique ethnic group, attending instead to the positive statistics that aggregate Asian American students into a single group of successful students. Reflecting the reality of underachievement in this population, much of the existing research on Cambodian Americans has focused on their academic difficulties, high dropout rates, delinquency, and language barriers. The extant literature examining the relationship between traditional cultural values and academic success for Cambodian American students have yielded conflicting results. Through a Multiple Worlds lens, the present study explored how successful Cambodian American college students perceive traditional cultural values in relation to their past and present school experiences. In addition, this research investigated that support successful transition between Cambodian American students' incongruent family, school and peer cultures. Findings demonstrate that successful Cambodian American students regularly face a number of borders in moving through the different contexts of their daily lives. Family obligation emerged as a significant traditional value that acted as a paradoxical influence in these students' academic lives. Our data suggests that students' supportive school environments in high school and in college were significant for helping them resolve this contradiction and pursue academic success. Implications for practice are discussed. (Contains 3 footnotes.).

Download or read book Factors Motivating Cambodian American Students to Go to College and to Study STEM Fields written by Visna Sann and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambodian Americans graduate from college at a lower rate than most Asian American groups. This qualitative study involved interviewing five current Cambodian American college students. This study examined how participants' high school experiences contributed to their decisions to go to college and study STEM fields, how parental influences guided participants to college, and how college experiences influenced their decisions to stay and succeed in STEM fields.

Download or read book Voices of Cambodian American College Graduates written by Mathew Kaizer N. Gonzales and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: While aggregated data demonstrates a high degree of educational attainment among Asian Americans as a whole, disaggregated data reveals a striking disparity among Cambodian Americans. Postsecondary education experiences of Cambodian Americans are often overlooked, in part due to a pervasive model minority stereotype. This qualitative study explored factors contributing to challenges and successes of 12 Cambodian Americans who successfully earned a bachelor's degree from a California institution. Four themes emerged from this study: Family--two camps, Cambodian invisibility, major challenges and barriers, and internal and external resources for success. Findings revealed how pervasive stereotypes, family perceptions, language barriers, and other commitments influenced the college experience while highlighting the role that internal drive, peers, and institutional support had on their success. This study adds to limited research on the experiences of Cambodian Americans in higher education and offers recommendations for policy, practice, and future research.

Download or read book Asian American Students in Higher Education written by Samuel D. Museus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American Students in Higher Education offers the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of existing theory and research related to Asian American students’ experiences in postsecondary education. Providing practical and insightful recommendations, this sourcebook covers a range of topics including critical historical and demographic contexts, the complexity of Asian American student identities, and factors that facilitate and hinder Asian American students’ success in college. The time has come for institutions of higher education to develop more holistic and authentic understandings of this significant and rapidly growing population, and this volume will help educators acquire deeper and more intricate knowledge of Asian American college students’ experiences. This resource is vital for college educators interested in better serving Asian American students in their institutions.

Download or read book Cambodian American Experiences written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surviving to Thrive The Experiences of Second Generation Cambodian Americans Students in the University written by Rachel Kim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on second generation Cambodian Americans in the university setting remains scarce in terms of determining the motivators and barriers of practicing resilience at the university level. Factors which pervade the Cambodian American community at large such as the intergenerational transmission of trauma, the push-pull dynamic felt largely by the second generation, and the aggregated data under the model minority myth for Asian Americans which largely ignores the poverty levels of specific Southeast Asian ethnic populations must be addressed. This qualitative study seeks to examine the experiences of three second generation Cambodian American university students. The implications of this research will help shed light on a specific group often overlooked in lieu of aggregated data of Asian Americans and the specific motivators and barriers they face in the university setting. This study will also help contribute to the Cambodian American experience of students' progress toward their undergraduate degree.

Download or read book Communication the Key to Success written by Catherine Carr and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cambodian American Experiences Histories Communities Cultures and Identities written by Jonathan H. and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educational Resources of Cambodian American Adolescents written by Denise N. Su and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creating Campus Cultures written by Samuel D. Museus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Campus Cultures is the first book to explicitly focus on how campus cultures shape the experiences of racially diverse student populations.

Download or read book The Education of Cambodian American Students in the the Long Beach Unified School District written by Wayne E. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cambodian American Experiences Histories Communities Cultures and Identities written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Jonathan H X Lee. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Asian American Educational Experience written by Donald Nakanishi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to The Asian American Educationalexperience examine the most significant issues and concerns in the education of Asian Americans. Contributors, all leading experts in their fields, provide theoretical discussions, practical insights and recommendations, historical perspectives and an analytical context for the many issues crucial to the education of this diverse population--controversies in higher education over alleged admissions quotas, stereotypes of Asian American students as "whiz kids", Asian Americans as the "model minority", bilingual education, education of refugee and immigrant populations, educational quality and equity. Special emphasis is given to both the historic debates which have shaped the field, and the concerns and challenges facing educators of Asian American students at both the K-12 and university level.

Download or read book Understanding Parental Historical Trauma and the Effect on Second generation Cambodian Americans written by Sara Socheata Pol-Lim and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the findings of this study, it is recommended that schools with large Cambodian American populations should educate later generations about Cambodian history, including the Genocide, and provide dual immersion language classes. This would help to interrupt intergenerational trauma, reduce the language barrier, and allow students and their parents to find purpose and peace. Future research should explore the experiences of survivors, including survivors who lived through the genocide but did not suffer persecution. Such research could lead to truth and reconciliation.

Download or read book Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype written by Stacy J. Lee and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth extends Stacey Lee’s groundbreaking research on the educational experiences and achievement of Asian American youth. Lee provides a comprehensive update of social science research to reveal the ways in which the larger structures of race and class play out in the lives of Asian American high school students, especially regarding presumptions that the educational experiences of Koreans, Chinese, and Hmong youth are all largely the same. In her detailed and probing ethnography, Lee presents the experiences of these students in their own words, providing an authentic insider perspective on identity and interethnic relations in an often misunderstood American community. This second edition is essential reading for anyone interested in Asian American youth and their experiences in U.S. schools. Stacey J. Lee is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth. “Stacey Lee is one of the most powerful and influential scholarly voices to challenge the ‘model minority’ stereotype. Here in its second edition, Lee’s book offers an additional paradigm to explain the barriers to educating young Asian Americans in the 21st century—xenoracism (i.e., racial discrimination against immigrant minorities) intersecting with issues of social class.” —Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Breaking important new theoretical and empirical ground, this revised edition is a must read for anyone interested in Asian American youth, race/ethnicity, and processes of transnational migration in the 21st century.” —Lois Weis, State University of New York Distinguished Professor “Clear, accessible, and significantly updated…. The book’s core lesson is as relevant today as it was when the first edition was published, presenting an urgent call to dismantle the dangerous stereotypes that continue to structure inequality in 21st century America.” —Teresa L. McCarty, Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies, Arizona State University Praise for the First Edition! "Sure to stimulate further research in this area and will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and students alike." —Teachers College Record "A must read for those interested in a different approach in understanding our racial experience beyond the stale and repetitious polemics that so often dominate the public debate." —The Journal of Asian Studies “Well written and jargon-free, this book…documents genuinely candid views from Asian-American students, often laden with their own prejudices and ethnocentrism.” —MultiCultural Review