“A Good Citizen is What You’ll Be”: Educating Khmer Youth for Citizenship in a United States Migrant Education Program

“A Good Citizen is What You’ll Be”: Educating Khmer Youth for Citizenship in a United States Migrant Education Program

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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...

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Main Author: Theresa Ann McGinnis
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bielefeld University 2015-09-01
Series:Journal of Social Science Education
Online Access:http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/1399
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spelling doaj-07d07e4773c04717b39b433b763043742020-11-25T01:13:59ZdeuBielefeld UniversityJournal of Social Science Education1618-52932015-09-01143667410.2390/jsse-v14-i3-13991278“A Good Citizen is What You’ll Be”: Educating Khmer Youth for Citizenship in a United States Migrant Education ProgramTheresa Ann McGinnis0Hofstra UniversityCitizenship 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.http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/1399
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description 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.
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