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Critical Readings on Diversity and Gifted Students. Volume 1
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Cross, Tracy L., Ed.; Coleman, Laurence J., Ed.; Cross, Jennifer Riedl, Ed. – Prufrock Press Inc, 2012
The field associated with educating students with gifts and talents has grappled for years with issues associated with locating and appropriately serving diverse students. As our schools have become more diverse, educators have struggled to effectively deal with the diversity of student backgrounds. Consequently, diversity among the gifted child…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Asian American Students, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Authoritarian Parenting and Asian Adolescent School Performance: Insights from the US and Taiwan
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Pong, Suet-ling; Johnston, Jamie; Chen, Vivien – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Our study re-examines the relationship between parenting and school performance among Asian students. We use two sources of data: wave I of the Adolescent Health Longitudinal Survey (Add Health), and waves I and II of the Taiwan Educational Panel Survey (TEPS). Analysis using Add Health reveals that the Asian-American/European-American difference…
Descriptors: Asians, Academic Achievement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
Teaching Asian American Students: Classroom Implications.
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Chiang, Linda H. – 2000
This study examined the unique learning styles of Asian-American students, noting different Asian immigrants' backgrounds and relating Asian cultures to children's learning. Data came from a literature review; interviews with 19 families from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan who had a total of 33 children ages 6-21 years; and home and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Taiwanese Students' Gender, Age, Interdependent and Independent Self-Construal, and Collective Self-Esteem as Predictors of Professional Psychological Help-Seeking Attitudes.
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Yeh, Christine J. – Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2002
Self-esteem, age, and gender were used to assess attitudes towards seeking psychological services among secondary school and college students. Self-esteem and gender significantly predicted students help-seeking attitudes. A counselor's knowledge of cultural perspectives of self-esteem, as they relate to help-seeking behaviors, will help with…
Descriptors: Age, Asian American Students, College Students, Counseling Effectiveness