1st Edition
The Asian American Educational Experience A Sourcebook for Teachers and Students
The contributions to The Asian American Educational experience examine the most significant issues and concerns in the education of Asian Americans. Contributors, all leading experts in their fields, provide theoretical discussions, practical insights and recommendations, historical perspectives and an analytical context for the many issues crucial to the education of this diverse population--controversies in higher education over alleged admissions quotas, stereotypes of Asian American students as "whiz kids", Asian Americans as the "model minority", bilingual education, education of refugee and immigrant populations, educational quality and equity. Special emphasis is given to both the historic debates which have shaped the field, and the concerns and challenges facing educators of Asian American students at both the K-12 and university level.
Biography
Director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tina Yamano Nishida is Executive Director of the Yamano College of Aesthetics of Los Angeles and Tokyo.
"...provides important material for teacher educators. It makes its largest contribution to scholarship in its extensive annotated bibliography detailing contemporary writings on Asian/Pacific American educational research." -- Education About Asia, April 1997
"...provides important material for teacher educators. It makes its largest contribution to scholarship in its extensive annotated bibliography detailing contemporary writings on Asian/Pacific American educational research." -- Education About Asia, April 1997