ERIC Number: EJ1101118
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 9
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"A Good Citizen Is What You'll Be": Educating Khmer Youth for Citizenship in a United States Migrant Education Program
McGinnis, Theresa Ann
Journal of Social Science Education, v14 n3 p66-74 Fall 2015
Citizenship education is a complex and multidimensional construct. This article adds to the discussion of citizenship education by examining, ethnographically the ways the "vision" of a US Migrant Education Program is circulated through the program's discourse practices to Khmer American children of migrant agricultural workers. The article does not discuss the formal legal status of citizenship, but the program coordinators' beliefs about the skills and dispositions needed for the Khmer youth to become "good citizens." Within the coordinators' visions, the fixing of the youth's perceived deficiencies drive the curriculum, and as such the full participation of the youth as active citizens is not achieved.
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Migrant Education, Asian Americans, Cambodians, Migrant Workers, Migrant Children, Ethnography, Middle School Students, Discourse Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
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