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Needham, Susan – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2003
Examined the role of language ideologies in the changing instructional and social organization of Khmer literacy classes, using data from research within a Cambodian community. Language ideologies engaged with local theories of learning to shape pedagogies and relations within classes. Form and function co-varied within groups and across settings.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cambodian, Cambodians, Ideology
Child Abuse and Neglect in Cambodian Refugee Families: Characteristics and Implications for Practice
Chang, Janet; Rhee, Siyon; Berthold, S. Megan – Child Welfare, 2008
This study examines the characteristics and patterns of child maltreatment among Cambodian refugee families in Los Angeles and assesses the implications for child welfare practice with Cambodian refugee families. Data were extracted from 243 active Cambodian case files maintained by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services…
Descriptors: Health Services, Substance Abuse, Cambodians, Child Abuse
Sprachman, Susan; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Aikens, Nikki; Caspe, Margaret – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
A child's ability to develop relationships and connections with others, a sense of who he or she is in the world, and an ability to control impulses and emotions are at the core of social-emotional development. In early childhood, parent reports are one of the most common methods for assessing this type of development. However, parents from…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Emotional Development, Urban Areas
Marston, John, Comp. – 1987
This 578-entry annotated bibliography is intended for use by people who work with Cambodian refugees in the United States, as well as anyone interested in Cambodian history, politics, and culture. It consists primarily of books and journal articles on Cambodia and Cambodians available in the University of Minnesota library system or that are part…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Asian History, Austro Asiatic Languages, Books
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA. – 1990
This teacher's packet accompanies a slide presentation on the arts of Cambodia and those nations on the Indochina peninsula. The packet contains: (1) a slide list describing the art depicted on each slide with time period and dimensions of the piece; (2) an introductory essay describing the geography, people, religion, art and history of the area;…
Descriptors: Art Education, Asian History, Asian Studies, Cambodian
Wallitt, Roberta – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
This article discusses one aspect of a research study that explored the school experiences of Cambodian American students. Due to their invisibility in the school setting and also in the literature on school reform, these children from refugee families are often overlooked as schools attempt to "close the achievement gap." Through their…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Cambodians, Dropout Rate, Academic Achievement
Ouk, Mory; And Others – 1988
Between 1975 and 1987, 140,000 Cambodians arrived in the United States; most have settled in California. This handbook for teachers and administrators who work with Khmer students and their parents begins with an overview of Cambodian history, and pays special attention to events since the Communist takeover in 1975. The second chapter,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Cambodian, Cambodians

Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975
The purpose of this bulletin is to provide the American educator or sponsor with a set of reading passages in Khmer (the language spoken in Cambodia), so that he will have some means of determining whether or not his Cambodian students can read Khmer. Three short passages have been selected, each given in the Khmer alphabet and in its romanized…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cambodian, Cambodians, Diagnostic Tests

Adamson, H. D.; Regan, Vera M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
Investigation of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the English variable "ing" found that such production was constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. (39 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cambodian, Cambodians, Community Influence, English (Second Language)

Boua, Chanthou – 1990
This study investigates the settlement of Cambodian adolescents in New South Wales (Australia). It looks at their participation in education and employment, the effects the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia had on those who lived through it, and the identity problems that usually occur in young people as a result of migration. According to the 1986…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cambodian
Knight, Caroline – Democracy & Education, 2008
The early 1980s saw an influx of Southeast Asian refugees from various demographic groups and backgrounds to Minnesota. As teachers, the author and her colleagues regularly added children from these groups to their classrooms, receiving little explanation of a student's history or language proficiency. To counteract increasing teacher resentment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Refugees, Hmong People, Immigrants
Walsh, Robert E. – 1981
Basic information that teachers of English as a second language should know about Indochinese refugees, including the identification of different ethnic or regional groups and characteristics of four Indochinese languages, is presented. Indochinese refugees come from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The five major groups of people are unrelated…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Alphabets, Cambodian, Cambodians
Lewis, Denise C. – Qualitative Report, 2007
This study addresses ways Khmer refugee elders utilize traditional herbal medicine with Western biomedicine in the treatment and prevention of illnesses. Methods include semi-structured and informal interviews with elders and family members, semi-structured interviews with local health care providers and Khmer physicians, and participant…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Physicians, Chronic Illness, Ideology

Barratt-Pugh, Caroline; Rohl, Mary – Reading Teacher, 2001
Describes a one-year research project in a Western Australia primary school in a low socioeconomic area, which has a Khmer-English bilingual program to develop and extend children's English and Khmer language and literacy. Discusses findings concerning the children's written progress in both languages, and children's perceptions of their identity…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Cambodian, Cambodians

Hardman, Joel C. – Language Teaching Research, 1999
Focuses on the English literacy development of Cambodian adults in the United States. Describes how Cambodian adults, literate in Khmer, participate in each other's English literacy development; how Cambodian children, fluent but not literate in Khmer participate in their parents' English literacy development; and how a Cambodian teacher…
Descriptors: Adults, Asian Americans, Cambodian, Cambodians