Becoming a Model Minority: Schooling Experiences of Ethnic Koreans in China (Emerging Perspectives on Education in China)

Becoming a Model Minority: Schooling Experiences of Ethnic Koreans in China looks at the manner in which ethnic Korean students construct self-perception out of the model minority stereotype in their school and lives in Northeast China. It also examines how this self-perception impacts the strength of the model minority stereotype in their attitudes toward school and strategies for success. Fang Gao shows how this stereotype tends to obscure significant barriers to scholastic success suffered by Korean students, as well as how it silences the disadvantages faced by Korean schooling in China's reform period and neglects the importance of multiculturalism and racial equality under the context of a harmonious society. "Becoming a Model Minority: Schooling Experience of Ethnic Koreans in China looks at the manner in which ethnic Korean students construct self-perception out of the model minority stereotype in their school and lives in Northeast China. It also examines how this self-perception impacts the strength of the model minority stereotype in students' attitudes toward school and strategies for success. Fang Gao shows how this stereotype tends to obscure significant barriers to scholastic success suffered by Korean students, as well as how it silences the disadvantages faced by Korean schooling in China's reform period and neglects the importance of multiculturalism and racial equality for the sake of a "harmonious society."" --Book Jacket Becoming a Model Minority adopts sociology of education to analyze the strength of the model minority stereotype in ethnic Korean students' school practices in Northeast China. Academic scholars who are interested in issues of race, ethnicity, and equity in education; bilingual and multicultural education; sociology of education; education for ethnic minorities in China; policy analysis of ethnic Koreans in China; and methods and methodology (ethnographic research on young children) will find this book informative The Making Of A Model Minority -- Ethnic Koreans In China: Their Schooling And Society -- Korean Parents And The Aspirations For Their Children -- Challenges Of Discourses On Model Minority And South Korean Wind -- Korean Students' Self-perception And Educational Aspirations -- Korean Students' School Practice -- To Be Or Not To Be A Model Minority. Fang Gao. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.