Educational “success” of Asian Americans: An indigenous perspective

The Adjustment of Asian American Families to the U.S. Context: The Ecology of Strengths and Stress

“…According to studies with European American samples, the authoritarian parenting style has been found to be associated with lower school achievement. However, this does not hold true with Asian student sample who scored high on the authoritarian style, and yet as a group, achieved the highest GPA (Chao, 1994;Kim & Chun, 1994).…”

Korean and US families, schools, and learning

“…Group solidarity, obligations, duties, emotional dependence, and group decisionmaking are collectivist traits clearly embedded in the Korean culture and filtered throughout different institutions (Kim & Chun, 1994). These traits are clearly embedded in the family, in which the family model is integrated into every kind of organization (i.e., businesses, government).…”

“…The president often acts as the family head and is expected to behave in this way'' (Song, 1997, p. 263). Group solidarity, obligations, duties, emotional dependence, and group decision-making are collectivist traits (Kim & Chun, 1994). These ''family-oriented'' traits are clearly embedded in the Korean culture and filtered throughout different institutions.…”

Parental expectations of Chinese immigrants: a folk theory about children's school achievement

“…Previous research work on immigrant families has shown that the minority immigrant status itself increases parental expectations (Kim & Chun, 1994;Siu, 1994;Chao, 1996;Fuligni, 1997;Hao & Bonstead-Bruns, 1998). Residing in a new county de®ned by the power of the white majority, Chinese immigrant parents have to adjust their expectations and parenting practice to meet the demand of acculturation (Hess et al, 1987;Chao, 1996;Lin & Liu, 1999).…”