Article: Ethnicity, achievement and friendship: Korean Chinese students' construction of peer networks

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TitleEthnicity, achievement and friendship: Korean Chinese students' construction of peer networks
AuthorsGao, F1
KeywordsAchievement
Ethnic integration
Ethnicity
Hanness
Koreanness
Issue Date2010
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00131911.asp
CitationEducational Review, 2010, v. 62 n. 2, p. 143-156 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131910903541045
AbstractThis research reported in this article ethnographically examines ethnicity and achievement in the formation of Korean Chinese students' peer networks. With the significance of children's peer networks in their interaction and school experience in mind, this article demonstrates how a group of ethnic Korean students at one Korean bilingual school with its competing ethnical projects of 'model minority' and the achievement of 'Han' students embrace, compromise or contest the officially dominant notion of ethnic integration and construct their peer networks. Through the findings from socio-metric tests and fieldwork, this research results look at the construction of Korean Chinese students' peer networks along the lines of ethnicity and academic achievement. This article emphasizes the need to scrutinize the assumption of ethnic integration under any special context since China's reform period, and points to the importance of multicultural themes in state education for equality and ethnic integration.
ISSN0013-1911
2011 Impact Factor: 0.66
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.032
DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131910903541045
ISI Accession Number IDWOS:000278864100002
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dc.contributor.authorGao, F
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-23T08:56:29Z
dc.date.available2010-12-23T08:56:29Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis research reported in this article ethnographically examines ethnicity and achievement in the formation of Korean Chinese students' peer networks. With the significance of children's peer networks in their interaction and school experience in mind, this article demonstrates how a group of ethnic Korean students at one Korean bilingual school with its competing ethnical projects of 'model minority' and the achievement of 'Han' students embrace, compromise or contest the officially dominant notion of ethnic integration and construct their peer networks. Through the findings from socio-metric tests and fieldwork, this research results look at the construction of Korean Chinese students' peer networks along the lines of ethnicity and academic achievement. This article emphasizes the need to scrutinize the assumption of ethnic integration under any special context since China's reform period, and points to the importance of multicultural themes in state education for equality and ethnic integration.
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dc.identifier.citationEducational Review, 2010, v. 62 n. 2, p. 143-156 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131910903541045
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131910903541045
dc.identifier.epage156
dc.identifier.hkuros178349
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000278864100002
dc.identifier.issn0013-1911
2011 Impact Factor: 0.66
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.032
dc.identifier.issue2
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dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-77953837827
dc.identifier.spage143
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/130556
dc.identifier.volume62
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00131911.asp
dc.relation.ispartofEducational Review
dc.rightsThis is an electronic version of an article published in Educational Review, 2010, v. 62 n. 2, p. 143-156 . The article is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131910903541045
dc.rightsCreative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License
dc.subjectAchievement
dc.subjectEthnic integration
dc.subjectEthnicity
dc.subjectHanness
dc.subjectKoreanness
dc.titleEthnicity, achievement and friendship: Korean Chinese students' construction of peer networks
dc.typeArticle
Author Affiliations
  1. The University of Hong Kong