Drawing upon an ethnography of Korean American families in the Chicago suburbs, this article examines how Asian immigrant parents' engagement is shaped by race, ethnicity, class, and the suburban context. Their children's education was a driving force in parents' decisions to settle in the suburbs. Once they arrived, parents were motivated by…

This study examines the process of parent participation for a group of Korean parents in a Korean English two-way immersion program who were labeled "uncooperative." It adopts Ogbu's cultural ecological theory as the theoretical framework for examining the phenomenon and thus it examines both the environmental as well as the cultural forces that…

Examines the orientations toward multicultural education articulated by 18 students (14 African Americans, 3 Mexican Americans, and 1 Korean American) at various stages in their teacher preparation. The findings suggest that teacher education must help students reconstruct their own educational experiences in order to focus on schooling for all.…

Investigates for perceptual learning style preferences (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile) and preferences for group and individual leaning of Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese secondary education students. Comparison analysis reveals diverse learning style preferences between Anglo and Asian American students and also between…