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Akiba, Daisuke – Educational Forum, 2010
While Asian Americans are frequently thought to form a singular group, Cambodian Americans are associated with unique sociohistorical and political characteristics, and are often associated with academic underachievement. This article reviews and synthesizes the major existing Cambodian American-related works in the fields of anthropology,…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Underachievement, Asian Americans, Cultural Influences
Prior, Matthew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates the ways in which emotions and emotionality are managed as topics and resources in second language (L2) research interviews. A continued challenge for researchers is how to define and operationalize emotions and other putative psychological phenomena. One popular research methodology that treats emotions as the object and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
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
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
Lee, Hee Yun; Lytle, Kathy; Yang, Pa Nhia; Lum, Terry – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
This study aims to explore mental health literacy, specifically focusing on depression, among Southeast Asian (SEA) elderly refugees residing in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Three focus groups were held with nine mental health professionals who work with SEA elders. Jorm's mental health literacy framework guided the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Health Services, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Workers
Tan, Charlene – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
This paper discusses the Cambodian government's attempt to promote civic and moral values in Cambodia schools through the subject "Civics and Morals". The paper argues that the tensions and challenges associated with civic and moral education are linked to a fundamental difference between the traditional view of education in Cambodia,…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, Cambodians, Foreign Countries
Chhuon, Vichet; Hudley, Cynthia – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2010
Research suggests that Cambodian students often endure conflicting ethnic stereotypes from larger society and their school and communities. We examine the ways in which Cambodian youth negotiated their ethnic identities in response to these stereotypes and argue that Cambodian students adopted, rejected, and affirmed certain ethnic identities in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Ethnicity, Cambodians, Ethnic Stereotypes
Lin, Nancy J.; Suyemoto, Karen L.; Kiang, Peter Nien-chu – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2009
This article describes influences on intergenerational communication within refugee families about sociocultural trauma and explores how education may positively affect this communication process. Drawing on qualitative research and grounded theory through a larger study concerning intergenerational effects of and communication about trauma in…
Descriptors: Refugees, Asian Americans, Cambodians, Young Adults
Clayton, Stephen – Language Policy, 2008
This paper uses Cambodia as a case study to problematise the notion of choice in the spread of English. I explore specific historical contexts which were central to the construction of the demand for English and English language teaching (ELT) in Cambodia. The actions of a range of external agencies resulted in the close discursive articulation of…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Models, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Wong, Frank Y.; DiGangi, Julia; Young, Darwin; Huang, Z. Jennifer; Smith, Brian D.; John, Don – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious global public health issue. At least one in three women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused during her lifetime. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than three women in the United States die every day from physical abuse suffered at the hands of an intimate…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Females, Public Health, Drinking
Wright, Wayne E. – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
Cambodian Americans are a fairly recent language minority group in the United States; most families arrived in the United States as refugees during the 1980s. Over the past 30 years, there has been great concern in the community regarding the maintenance loss of their native Khmer language. This article provides an historical and contemporary…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Community Leaders, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
Chhuon, Vichet; Hudley, Cynthia – Journal of College Student Development, 2008
The current article examines the experiences of successful Cambodian American students as a unique ethnic group to understand their patterns of social and academic college integration. Cambodian American students' sense of academic belonging related closely to perceptions of personal connections. Our data suggest that integration into the campus…
Descriptors: College Students, Cambodians, Ethnic Groups, Asian American Students

Longmire, B. Jean – Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 1992
Examines the ways Cambodians in the United States use Cambodian to structure replies in a job interview to make clear their acceptance of the Cambodian values of collectivism, respect for hierarchy, and willingness to accept the direction of superiors. (three references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cambodian, Cambodians, Cultural Traits
Choi, Yoonsun; He, Michael; Harachi, Tracy W. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Intergenerational cultural dissonance (ICD)--a clash between parents and children over cultural values--is a frequent issue for Asian American youth. Using longitudinal data from the Cross Cultural Families Project, this study examines the mechanisms by which ICD contributes to problem behaviors, including whether ICD predicts parent-child…
Descriptors: Youth Problems, Cambodians, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
Almgren, Gunnar; Magarati, Maya; Mogford, Liz – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
We investigate the factors that influence adolescent self-assessed health, based upon surveys conducted between 2000 and 2004 of high-school seniors in Washington State (N = 6853). A large proportion of the sample (30%) was first and second generation immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Findings include a robust negative…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Race, Adolescents, Foreign Countries