All posts by Pei-chi Chuang

Fears of “losing children” to Americanization

Blurring the In-School Ouf-of-School Line

Bridging can feel threatening to immigrant parents, however. Recently arrived immigrant parents have reported retaining aspects of the home culture as a protective mechanism, perceiving a correlation between loss of home culture and negative social and educational outcomes for youth. Other studies have documented the ways in which immigrant families make explicit efforts to shape their children’s experiences in U.S. schools. Trueba (1998) found that Mexican families did not hesitate to send youth back to their countries of origin if their educational (and behavioral) trajectories were taking a turn that parents found unacceptable. – Doucet (2011)

The article tile captures my attention in terms of immigrant parents. I am student teaching in a local public high school in Brooklyn now. All my 34 students are immigrants from China or South American countries. Technically, some of them are not immigrants based on the definition of immigrant because they were born in the United States. For example, in Brooklyn China town, you can see one of categories on immigrant advertisements is sending kids back to China. Continue reading Fears of “losing children” to Americanization →

Follow the modern LINE in teaching

eLiteracy and Social Media(tion), Media and Technology Critiques

LINE is an application on electronic devices such as cell phone, tablet, computer, for instant communication. LINE was developed by Japan and Korea in 2011. LINE is especially popular in Asian countries and has accumulated 220 millions users in the world till 2016 Q2 from Statisca report (https://www.statista.com/statistics/327292/number-of-monthly-active-line-app-users/). LINE was introduced to Taiwan in 2012 and it has been very popular across the fields in government, business, commercial, education, etc. Continue reading Follow the modern LINE in teaching →

Media Manipulation and Critical Media Literacy

eLiteracy and Social Media(tion)

Media can actually shape a culture or possibly your views concerning a culture or a people. For some time now, the media has presented African Americans as people who are criminals, people who are slaves, and people who are dropouts or possibly video girls. The media has presented young African American children the false reality of becoming millionaires overnight by challenging them to become rap stars or famous athletes. It is sad that the media does not advertise youth excellence as much in the Black community. In the school where I teach, I saw the importance of making my students aware of options that they have in choosing their destiny. – Carr

The bold sentences of this page also draw my attention that “as teachers, when teaching for media literacy, we must be careful to not persuade our students according to our viewpoints but to teach them how to make an educated decision after researching many sources…” Most of time, students and even adults are manipulated by media. Continue reading Media Manipulation and Critical Media Literacy →

Family’s Socioeconomics Induce Peer Pressure

Socioemotional and Psychological Development in Adolescence

Parents may eventually become an embarrassment to young adolescents.
Early adolescents struggle with the conflict inherent in the need to depend on parents for support as they move toward independence. The seventh grader who occasionally ask her parents for assistance in doing homework may request that her father drop her off a block from school to ensure that he not embarrass her in front of her friends. At the end of the day, when the father returns to the same intersection to pick his daughter up, she might chastise him for not driving right up to the school building. – Brown & Knowles (2007)

I did the same thing in middle school too, asking my mother to drop me off and pick me up one or two blocks away from the school. This happened to my older sister too, while I didn’t understand that time when I was much younger. Continue reading Family’s Socioeconomics Induce Peer Pressure →

Mirror Mirror, on the Wall

Biological & Cognitive Development in Adolescence

“Physical development is an overriding concern of young adolescents. Looking at themselves in every mirror they can find, they will often see an alien body staring back. Whether it’s the reflection in the bathroom mirror at home or the one hung in their locker, in the window of a car the doorknob to their classroom, or a cafeteria spoon, middle school students watch themselves, convinced that everyone else is watching them too. They want to know, “Am I normal?” – Brown & Knowles, 2007
The passage also mentioned that complaints of high rate of restroom pass from a middle school principal. After the principal set the mirrors inside the door of each classroom, there was the dramatic drop in the number of student requests for restroom pass. Hahaha~ This recalled my memories in middle school in Taiwan. Continue reading Mirror Mirror, on the Wall →