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Marisa D. Mariano – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Asian Americans (AA) are one of the most rapidly growing populations in higher education, increasing by 36% since 2010. AA students are considered the model minority group who are generally academically successful. However, recent studies by Vang (2016) and Nguyen (2018) have disaggregated data and found while many Asian immigrants came to the…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Asian American Students, Filipino Americans, Student Experience
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Kiyama, Judy Marquez – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
Upon transition to higher education, Latinas face obstacles including cultural stereotypes, limited financial resources, racist campus climates, family responsibilities, being first generation college students, and cultural incongruities. Despite obstacles, Latinas exhibit college aspirations and goals. This article centers Latinas' messages…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Ethnic Stereotypes, Barriers
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Crocitto, Madeline M.; Walsh, Lynn D.; Murphy, Albert; Keefe, Maureen A. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Business educators are concerned with integrating diversity-related topics and seek methods by which to teach them. This paper suggests that as classes become more heterogeneous, the opportunity to examine diverse perspectives and experiences naturally arises in the course of class assignments and activities. The differential experiences of…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Student Diversity, Teaching Methods, Identification (Psychology)
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Martinez-Vogt, Emily – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
This theoretical paper is based on a larger study focused on understanding the experiences of Latina community college students. The purpose of this paper is to expand upon the Silence to Resilience Model, which involves four phases that Latinas encounter upon or throughout their transition to community college including: (1) Racism on campus, (2)…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Two Year College Students, Resilience (Psychology)
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Martinez-Vogt, Emily – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
Latina community college students experience a number of challenges during their transition to college. Findings from a larger study indicated that Latina community college students experienced racism and stereotyping on campus responding with silence. Silence occurred in two ways: (1) Latinas were forced to be silent, and/or (2) Latinas chose to…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Racial Bias
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Harper, Shaun R. – Urban Education, 2015
The overwhelming majority of published scholarship on urban high schools in the United States focuses on problems of inadequacy, instability, underperformance, and violence. Similarly, across all schooling contexts, most of what has been written about young men of color continually reinforces deficit narratives about their educational possibility.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, Males, Adolescents
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Ho, Li-Ching; Seow, Tricia – Social Education, 2013
Chinatowns are familiar emblems of "Chineseness" in many countries and are among the most visible and tangible spatial manifestations of Chinese migration. Large and well-established Chinatowns can be found in diverse locales, including New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. Despite sharing numerous easily…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Migration, Governance
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Caracciolo, Diane – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
When prospective teachers are asked to discover something about the Native peoples on whose homelands they live and will earn their living, why do they have such difficulty locating material that reflects a contemporary indigenous perspective? Is it that there are no resources out there to help them in their search, or is it that they only find…
Descriptors: American Indians, Grade 4, American Indian Culture, Preservice Teachers
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Qin, Desiree Boalian; Way, Niobe; Mukherjee, Preetika – Youth & Society, 2008
The image of the model minority dominates scholarly and public discourse on Asian American children and adolescents. However, recent research has shown that despite their high levels of educational achievement Asian American students report poor psychological and social adjustment. Using an ecological framework, this article sought to explore the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Adjustment, Chinese Americans, Asian American Students
Rice, David G.; Sternbach, Richard A. – Personnel Guidance J, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affluent Youth, College Students, Ethnic Stereotypes
Verin-Shapiro, Penny – 2000
Based on ethnographic research on Puerto Ricans on the island and mainland, this paper examines why Nuyoricans' identities are disparaged by island and mainland Puerto Ricans. Nuyoricans are Puerto Ricans, especially in New York, who mix North American and Puerto Rican cultural traits. Many have grown up traveling between the island and mainland.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Images, Ethnic Stereotypes, Ethnicity
Rosenshein, Joel; Ribner, Sol – 1973
Poverty in New York City has been studied but never the specific problem of the Jewish minority groupings. The present study was geared towards presenting the incidences of poverty within the Jewish population in New York City and in presenting the beginning sociological picture of poverty among Jews. The study went through three phases. A first…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Economically Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Stereotypes
Brawdy, Paul J. – Online Submission, 2004
This paper focuses on the use of outdoor-based experiential learning in an undergraduate physical education teacher preparation program to develop a culturally-sensitive pedagogy for work with children from different cultures. Applying the six-stage process for becoming a bi-cultural teacher (Klug & Whitfield, 2003), teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Consciousness Raising, Outdoor Education, Field Trips
Lyman, Linda L.; Villani, Christine J. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2004
This book presents both the practice and theory of best leadership practices in high-poverty schools. Authors Linda Lyman and Christine Villani take a unique approach by inviting readers into two high-poverty elementary schools where they will experience, through in-depth case studies, how two extraordinary principals model and practice their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Leadership, Poverty, Low Income