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Pon, Nikum – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study seeks to investigate an interesting and understudied case of the persistence and retention of immigrant students in postsecondary education. Specifically, the study examines the way family dynamics of second-generation Cambodian college students influence their success in postsecondary education. Currently, much of the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Cambodians, Asian American Students
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Chhuon, Vichet; Kyratzis, Amy; Hudley, Cynthia – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2010
This article uses a life story framework (Linde, 1993) to examine the educational experiences of Cambodian American women college students. The literature suggests that Cambodian American female students experience particular educational challenges related to the gendered expectations of their cultural group. Two main themes emerged from analyses…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Females, Educational Experience, Biographies
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Chhuon, Vichet; Hudley, Cynthia; Brenner, Mary E.; Macias, Roseanne – Urban Education, 2010
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. Through ethnographic interviews, this article examines how successful Cambodian American students interpreted values from their…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Cambodians, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants