Vichet Chhuon
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
culture and teaching
Room 359 Peik Hall
159 Pillsbury Dr S E
Tel: 612/625-4331
Curriculum and Instruction
Room 359 Peik Hall
159 Pillbury Dr SE
vichet@umn.edu
Office hours:
by appointment
Areas of Interest
Urban Education; Racial and Ethnic Identities; Motivation; Adolescence; School Connectedness; Immigrant Youth
Research Interests
I am an Assistant Professor of Culture and Teaching with an affiliation in the Asian American Studies Program. The consistent thread that cut across my research has been meeting the teaching and learning needs of immigrant and marginalized students, examining the relationships between educational institutions, families, and social context, and employing interdisciplinary frameworks and diverse methodologies to the study of education.
My past work has focused on the academic and ethnic identities of Cambodian American students. I have discussed how the ethnic identity options and decisions for these students held important consequences for relationships with peers, teachers, and other significant adults in school. My other writing has more broadly focused on the experiences of students of color to understand from students how teachers and schools might better help them realize their promise. I am continuing this line of research through a collaborative project that investigates adolescents’ perceptions of “being known” (with Tanner Wallace, University of Pittsburgh). We are currently investigating the roles in which students’ sense of being known play in supportive school experiences and positive youth development.
I am also the book review editor for the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/index) and serve as secretary for the Research on Education of Asian Pacific American special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (http://www.aera.net/Default.aspx?id=1298).
Courses
- CI 3150: Special topics on Southeast Asian students in the United States
- CI 8133: Research methods in curriculum and instruction
- CI 8148: Qualitative studies in education
- CI 8159: Culture and Teaching colloquium: Racial and ethnic identities in teaching and learning
Selected Publications
Chhuon, V., & Wallace, T. (in press). Creating connectedness through Being Known: Fulfilling the need to belong in U.S. high schools. Youth and Society.
Hudley, C., & Chhuon, V. (2012). Motivation for academic achievement in urban American schools. In K.Gallagher, R. Goodyear, D. Brewer and R. Rueda (Eds.), Urban Education: A Model for Leadership and Policy, (pp. 271-282). New York: Routledg
Chhuon, V. (2011). Adolescent heritage speakers of less commonly taught languages in the U.S. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(9), 666-676.
Chhuon, V., & Hudley, C. (2010). Asian American ethnic options. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 41(4), 341-359.
Chhuon, V., Hudley, C., Brenner, M.E., & Macias, R. (2010). The multiple worlds of successful Cambodian American students. Urban Education, 45 (1), 30-57.
Chhuon, V., Dosalmas, A., & Rinthapol, N. (2010). Factors supporting academic engagement among Cambodian American high school youth. Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 5, 1-14.
Carranza, F.D., You, S., Chhuon, V., & Hudley, C. (2009). A model of Mexican American academic achievement: Perceived parental educational involvement, acculturation and self-esteem. Adolescence, 44 (174), 313-333.
Chhuon, V., Gilkey, E., Gonzalez, M., Chrispeels, J., & Daly, A. (2008). A little district that could: The process of building district-school trust. Educational Administration Quarterly, 44 (2), 257-281.
Revised August 2011
