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Chhuon, Vichet; Hudley, Cynthia; Macias, Roseanne – Online Submission, 2006
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. Reflecting the reality of underachievement in this population, much of the existing research on Cambodian Americans has focused on…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Social Values, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy
Li, Gertraude Roth – 1983
This paper, directed toward Americans who sponsor Cambodian refugees, provides background on these peoples' culture and refugee experience and suggests ways that they might be helped to adapt to life in the United States. It is emphasized that while Cambodians are very cooperative and easy-going, they will need help in a number of areas. In…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Cambodians, Cultural Traits
Ngo, Xuong, Comp.; Guay, Marcel, Ed. – 1982
Firsthand accounts by refugees from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, telling how they escaped from Indochina and how they are adjusting to life in Canada (and particularly Nova Scotia), form the greater part of this book. Most of the accounts are by Vietnamese. Information is also provided on the history of the Canadian refugee program, and on the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Cambodians, Cultural Background
Riddle, Tom – 1988
This study of the unusually high level of labor force participation in the Hawaiian Cambodian community includes descriptions of what Cambodians do in Hawaii, demographic descriptions of the community and household units, a description of the influence of the welfare system on the Cambodian community, and ethnographic descriptions of the lives of…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Employment, Ethnography, Interviews

Sack, William H.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 170 Cambodian refugee youth and 80 of their mothers living in Portland, Oregon, regarding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the stress of war, resettlement, and recent life events. A consistent relationship between earlier war trauma, resettlement stress, and symptoms of PTSD was found. In contrast, the strongest relationship to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cambodians, Mothers
Chen, Ching-Yaw; Sok, Phyra; Sok, Keomony – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2007
Purpose: To study the quality in higher education in Cambodia and explore the potential factors leading to quality in Cambodian higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Five main factors that were deemed relevant in providing quality in Cambodian higher education were proposed: academic curriculum and extra-curricular activities, teachers'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cambodians, Universities, Private Colleges
Ngo, Bic; Lee, Stacey J. – Review of Educational Research, 2007
Similar to other Asian American students, Southeast Asian American students are often stereotyped by the popular press as hardworking and high-achieving model minorities. On the other hand, Southeast Asian American youth are also depicted as low-achieving high school dropouts involved in gangs. The realities of academic performance and persistence…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Asian American Students
Daley, Tamara C. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2006
This study examined the relationship between perception of communication and report of symptoms among second-generation Cambodian children and their parents using a matched-control design of clinic and community children. Children reported significantly higher symptoms than parents in both samples. Clinic parents reported more symptoms than …
Descriptors: Clinics, Cambodians, Parent Child Relationship, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Silver, Barbara J.; Chui, Josephine – 1985
This annotated bibliography provides information for use in developing culturally appropriate mental health services for South East Asian refugees in the United States. The annotations are divided into four sections by population group: Cambodian, Laotian and Hmong, Vietnamese, and Indochinese. For each annotation, the primary audience is noted,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cambodians, Health Needs
Utah State Univ., Logan. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1985
This package consists of various bilingual instructional materials for use in helping Indochinese refugees learn basic housecleaning skills. Included in the package are translations of instructional booklets dealing with the following topics: cleaning woodwork (English, Vietnamese, Lao); cleaning windows, mirrors, and other glass (English,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Cambodian, Cleaning
Schultz, Sandra L. – 1980
This paper explores the health behaviors and health beliefs of Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, (and the Chinese components of these populations), and the Mien and Hmong of Laos. Included is a description of the major medical systems in each country, local practitioners, and some of the uniquely recognized diseases and cures of each area.…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Beliefs, Cambodians, Cultural Traits
Foreign Service (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. Foreign Service Inst. – 1975
This volume contains a Cambodian-English and an English-Cambodian glossary, with approximately 8,000 and 7,500 entries respectively. The entries are the vocabulary contained in the introductory lessons and subject matter modules (entitled "The Land and the Economy,""The Political Institutions,""The Social Institutions" and "The Individual in…
Descriptors: Cambodian, English, Glossaries, Instructional Materials

Smith-Hefner, Nancy J. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1990
The author finds the Khmer refugee parents of children in Boston area schools to be relatively uninterested in the question of their children's education, following from a fatalistic outlook that distinguishes them from other Southeast Asian refugees, whose children are urged to succeed against all odds. (DM)
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Bilingual Education, Cambodians, Elementary Education
The Pastoral Care and Challenges of the People from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the United States.
Tran, Peter – Migration World Magazine, 1990
Discusses responses of the Catholic church to the special needs of Indochinese refugees in the United States. Reviews the influence of Catholicism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and describes activities of itinerant ministries to Catholic refugee communities across the U.S. The church's mission must be openness and hospitality toward newcomers.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cambodians, Church Role
Taini, Reno – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1996
During summer 1991, an experiential educator worked in a Cambodian refugee camp helping newly trained camp police to become a team and develop the necessary personal skills to maintain order in the face of ongoing Khmer Rouge activities. The story of that summer's experiential training ends with a remarkable long-term outcome. (SV)
Descriptors: Cambodians, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Group Unity