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Direct linkChhuon, 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
Download full textRanard, Donald A. – In America: Perspectives on Refugee Settlement, 1989
A study was conducted concerning how Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees between the ages of 15 and 18 have faced the difficulties of adjusting to life in the United States. The study looked at some of the reasons behind the difficulties these youth experience, as well as their success at school, within the family, and in society.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cambodians
Peer reviewedSmith-Hefner, Nancy J. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1993
Explores in-group variation in minority educational achievement by studying why a disproportionately high number of young Khmer women drop out of school in the United States. An ethnographic study (over 125 interviews) in metropolitan Boston (Massachusetts) demonstrates the importance of understanding cultural and social-historical influences on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Age Differences, Asian Americans
