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Heidt, Marium Abugasea; French, Martha M.; Miller, Henry – Multicultural Perspectives, 2023
In this article, we advocate for integrating select graphic novels into curricula for English language learners and emergent bilinguals to push against the dominant and harmful narratives that tend to be found in traditional history texts and curricula. We use "Vietnamerica" by Tran and "Escape from Syria" by Kullab et al. as…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, English Language Learners, Bilingualism
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Tran, Van Anh – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
In elementary classrooms, teaching immigration often begins and ends at Ellis Island--without discussions of racist migration policies or engagement with current issues. Although contemporary immigration is rarely discussed with elementary students, the number of young people from immigrant and/or refugee backgrounds in the U.S. continues to rise.…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Immigration, Elementary School Students
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Douglas, Cynthia M. – Journal of International Students, 2015
This article focuses on the application of the philosophical principles of John Dewey and Culturally Responsive Education in the creation of lesson plans for Vietnamese students in the American Diaspora. Through a Fulbright-Hayes Program a group of teachers from the New York City Public School System and Long Island spent six weeks in Vietnam…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Vietnamese People, Culturally Relevant Education, Immigrants
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Kern, Anne L.; Roehrig, Gillian; Wattam, Donald K. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Teaching is a highly personal endeavor shaped by "funds of knowledge" and beliefs about teaching, learning, and students. This case study examines how one Asian immigrant teacher's personal expectations and beliefs influenced his expectations of students and the teaching and instructional strategies he employed. His expectations of students'…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Ethnography, Global Approach
Fenwick, Tara, Ed.; Farrell, Lesley, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better "mobilized" among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities? These sorts of questions are commanding urgent…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Educational Research, Research Utilization, Museums
Chuong, Chung Hoang – 1994
This revised version of the 1988 essay "Working with Vietnamese High School Students" includes updated demographics, profiles of the Amerasian newcomers and the children of Vietnamese re-education internees, who have been among the latest arrivals from Southeast Asia, a review of the literature on Vietnamese students, and a discussion of key…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, Cognitive Style