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ED361446 UD029457
Title: Taking No Chances: Profile of a Chinese-American Family's Support for School Success.
Author(s): Siu, Sau-Fong
Author Affiliation: Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning.(BBB29867); Wheelock Coll., Boston, MA.(MGG96638)
Pages: 24
Publication Date: April 1993
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Atlanta, GA, April 12-16, 1993).
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. (EDD00036)
Contract No: R117Q00031
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Evaluative (142); Speeches/meeting papers (150)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Massachusetts
Journal Announcement: RIEJAN1994
The case study
of how one Chinese-American family enhances the school success of
their children is presented. The study is part of a 5-year project
on how families from different ethnic backgrounds promote academic
achievement. Information has been collected on nine Chinese-American
families, but only one is the focus of this report. Information
on the family was gathered through a background questionnaire, open-ended
interviews, and observation of parent-child interactions. The working
class immigrant Chinese-American subject family has only one child,
and has managed to socialize their first-grade son to be sociable,
talkative, and curious, as well as compliant, attentive, and polite.
The ways the family has accomplished this, while exposing the child
to a Chinese environment and an English-speaking environment, are
explored. Hypotheses generated from the analysis of data from this
family and the other families will eventually be tested with a larger
Chinese-American population. (Contains 31 references.) (SLD)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; Acculturation; Case Studies;
*Child Rearing; *Chinese Americans; Cultural Differences; Elementary
School Students; Family Characteristics; Immigrants; Parent Child
Relationship; *Parent Participation; Parent Role; Primary Education;
Profiles; *Social Adjustment; *Student Adjustment
