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Understanding Educational Experiences of Second-Generation Korean Americans
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- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2001
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 교육종합연구원
- Citation
- SNU Journal of Education Research, Vol.11, pp. 25-52
- Keywords
- second-generation Korean Americans ; model minority ; voluntary minority ; educational performance
- Description
- 2001
- Abstract
- This article attempts to show how second-generation, Korean-American students have
constructed their own meanings of pursuing education. By drawing on several Korean-American college students' life histories and commentaries about their educational
experiences, I describe the attitudes about education held by a segment of second-generation Korean-American students. In order to reject conventional notions of
Korean-American students' academic behavior (e.g., Korean Americans as science whizzes
and high-score achievers), I focus on the process rather than the product of individual
academic performances. Especially, I will illustrate how a female student called Sumi has coped with the social beliefs and narratives that have represented Korean-Americans' educational performances on the public and academics. As she has experienced conflicts between the representations and reality, she has transformed her attitudes about education. Her attitude change has been accompanied by her interpretations and
reflections about her educational experiences situated in various contexts including family, neighborhood, and school conditions. These experiences have revolved around and against the taken-for-granted image of Korean Americans, that is, the "model minority" image and the concept of voluntary minorities as successful academic achievers
- ISSN
- 1225-5335
- Language
- English
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