Many Vietnamese parents do not understand their right and responsibility to participate in decision-making processes affecting their children's education. This article discusses the information dissemination, logistical support, authentic dialogue, and parental empowerment techniques crucial to ensuring the Vietnamese community's active role in…

Reviews the works of some major Vietnamese American women writers who are concerned with the two dominant themes of Vietnamese literature written outside the homeland: exile and home. Rather than demonstrating a concern with great national issues, these authors write about ordinary life and the problems of the human heart. (SLD)

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…

Public elementary education in the United States and South Vietnam are compared with respect to governance, support, teachers and teacher training, school organization, curriculum and many other characteristics of schooling. (JH)

This annotated bibliography on Vietnamese Amerasians includes primary and secondary sources as well as reviews of three documentary films. Sources were selected in order to provide an overview of the historical and political context of Amerasian resettlement and a review of the scant available research on coping and adaptation with this…

In some research involving Asian Americans generalizability is questionable because the group under study is composed of persons from many cultural traditions. This study looked at 2,511 4th to 11th grade American students of Asian descent all of whom were members of one of the following Asian groups: (1) Chinese; (2) Filipino; (3) Japanese; (4)…

A questionnaire was given to 33 Indochinese (Vietnamese and Laotian) immigrant parents residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in order to discover their views of the education their elementary school children were receiving. The results indicated that the parents were, in general, pleased with their children's education. Many felt, however, that…

This study in Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese is concerned with forms, meanings, and usage relating to personal pronouns and also other forms which, like them, are used as sentence subjects or objects with first or second person meanings--such phenomena being termed "pronominal." Three types of forms are seen to occur pronominally in the…

This paper documents the results of a series of experiments conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses on translating technical material from English to Vietnamese. The work was accomplished in support of the Office of the Deputy Director, Research and Engineering, Deputy Director for Southeast Asia Matters. The paper addresses the question…

After the bombing of North Vietnamese cities in the Christmas period of 1972, Dutch universities and institutions of higher education sought ways in which they could assist with the recovery and further development of science and technology in Vietnam. This is a survey of what has been achieved so far. (Author/RK)

An approach that teaches secondary students about Vietnam within the framework of the world history/world culture course is described. By reading and studying Vietnamese fiction and poetry, students learn about Vietnam from a Vietnamese perspective instead of the usual exclusive Western viewpoint. (RM)

There appear to be three reasons why Sino-Vietnamese refugees lag behind ethnic Vietnamese refugees in cultural and economic adaptation: (1) they come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds; (2) they arrived when incentives to prompt adjustment were lessening; and (3) their attitudes and behaviors differ for cultural reasons. (GC)

Engineering courses were taught in South Vietnam by an American instructor. Students read course notes typed in English, held discussions among themselves in Vietnamese, and asked questions through translators. Students were able to learn with a minimum of direct verbal communication if they had a reading knowledge of the instructor's language.…

An early visitor to reunified Viet Nam offers his impressions of education in that country. (IRT)

Vietnamese immigrants constitute 28% of the population of the small town of Amelia, Louisiana. Vietnamese are characterized by their neighbors as family oriented, hardworking, and self-disciplined. The principal of the local elementary school describes the Vietnamese students as bright and motivated. The local Vietnamese priest expresses concern…