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Dat Bao; Giulio Ricci – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
This chapter identifies and presents a range of factors that impedes North Korean students' learning and social adaptation in the South Korean educational system. Such factors include differences in learning approaches, social experiences, behaviour, mindset, language use, among others. All of these lead to low acceptance by the host towards the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Culturally Relevant Education, Stereotypes, Social Discrimination
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Louie, Jennifer Yu; Wang, Shu-wen; Fung, Joey; Lau, Anna – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Previous research suggests that adult perceptions of children's social competence may vary depending on the socialization goals in a given cultural context. There is also ample evidence of cultural differences in values concerning emotional display, with East Asian collectivistic contexts favoring restraint and Western individualistic contexts…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Asian Americans, Anglo Americans, Preschool Children
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Lee, Inkyung; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka – Journal of Research in International Education, 2007
The purpose of this phenomenological interview study was to describe how visiting Korean students experience social adjustment and acculturation when attending US middle schools. As a result of phenomenological analysis, the essences of Korean students' social adjustment included: (1) descriptions of power struggles; (2) misconceptions of cultural…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Acculturation, Social Adjustment, Cultural Differences