Manuscript/Mixed Material Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection
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Image 1 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … American Folklife Center Library of Congress Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools Folkilfe Project AFC 1993001 a1c1993001_04_008 Cambodian Final Reports- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 2 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … S CAMBODIAN SCHOOL IN HOUSTON A itepot to the AnieLcgvi FotkZi6e Cente Libtauj o6 Covges4 on 6aed Le4 eaicck conducted b etieert Apti1 and Juy 1982 by Fkaiiia Pkoo ejian a4 paJtt…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 3 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pro schan 2 in need who calls on her will be assisted to the extent humanly possible She is a modernday Jane Addams motivated by the intense commitment to help her Cambodian…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 4 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pros chan 3 S S S contact with American children of other cultures Cluster housing maximizes the advantages and minimizes the disadvantages of the less deliberate refugee settlement patterns which prevail in…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 5 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 4 The first to move in in February 1981 were a few families that had been living elsewhere in Houston I chose the ones that had low incomes large families family…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 6 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 5 S S S cultural traditions by neighbors and family members I concentrate on the programs encompassed within the must necessarily be seen in the larger context The While in this…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 7 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 6 Yani KEO also supervises ESL classes taught by volunteers at a church across from her Weaver Street cluster She herself teaches ESL several evenings a week at 2800 Main Street…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 8 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pro schan 7 S S 0 from rural areas even if their parents had some literacy were rarely taught to read or write during a period when sheer survival demanded constant work…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 9 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 8 715 who had never been to school in order to prepare them to enter the American public school in the fall However review classes scheduled intermittently throughout the new illiterate…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 10 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pro schan 9 S S S fifty people The camp school taught Cambodian math health physical education dance and music UN authorities wanted them to teach history but they declined she wanted…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 11 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 10 in the Village students who are embarrassed or uncomfortable in the public school who feel lost or too old can gain a feeling of pride and accomplishment in the Cambodian…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 12 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 11 S S S children are fluent in spoken Cambodian even if they are not literate Yani RED explains that sometimes these children forget what they were before I have experience…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 13 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pro schan 12 children have outgrown the mother and theres the problem She cant communicate they dont speak Cambodian and she doesnt speak English They speak English and they dont speak Cambodian…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 14 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pros chan 13 S S 0 that the keystone does not hang unsupported in midair Instead it is held up by an arch of formal and informal programs by which Cambodian children…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 15 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 14 PART II S The foregoing has been a report on the school and the Village and what follows is more in the nature of a report on the research As…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 16 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 15 S S S were pursuing here at present In fact a perfect conversation opener was Where did you learn English or What grade are you in Most of the adult…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 17 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 16 lessons had been teachers in Cambodia IN Man had taught French and Cambodian at the elementary school level for several years until he joined the army and MOUK Phon had…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 18 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pros chan 17 S S are at least not draining them and moreover they are being prepared for remunerative occupations Girls can be admitted to Gary Job Corps anytime although boys must…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 19 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 18 assist I felt that it demonstrated respect for their English abilities to accept a tentative or incomplete response in English rather than demanding a fuller reply in Cambodian This was…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 20 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Pro schan 19 S S S A final word must be inserted on the proper use of quotations from the taped interviews In my tape logs transcriptions and the quotes excerpted in…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 21 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Proschan 20 to use them for linguistically oriented analyses but for general informational purposes the corrected transcripts should be used Finally I offer a few suggestions for continuing research As I have…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 22 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … FRANK PROSCHAN CAMBODIAN SCHOOL IN HOUSTON Near the intersection of US 59 and Interstate 610 in Northeast Houston is a court of twentythree houses the Khmer Village that is home for about…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 23 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Cambodian worker teach an adult ESL English as a Second Language class settle a domestic dispute at one of her cluster housing sites and then return home to handstitch a traditional Cambodian…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 24 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … children at the Village attend the same elementary school There are enough of them so that they do not feel isolated and so that the teach ers and staff are able to…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 25 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … lord was that the twentythird house was provided rentfree to be used as a school They pay only for utilities and donated furnishings for that building Their first task was to make…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 26 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … C1OA405 For the residents of the Khmer Village education is not con strained within the four walls of the school building or the local pub lic schools It ranges from orientation in…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 27 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … procedure recently has been for refugees to go from Thailand to the Phi lippines for several months of orientation and ESL but some come directly from Thai camps where teaching English is…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 28 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … Turning finally to the classes in Cambodian literacy for children we must again backtrack for a moment Yani KEO the school teacher Madorom HUOT and the parents in the Village share a…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 29 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … bodian is a primary shortterm goal for them Yani KEO explains If you dont know the alphabet you cannot go far You dont have a strong root Thats the Cambodian way to…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 30 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … prized by those in the camps I have seen families arriving in the US who brought with them a few pounds of rice perhaps some treasured fami ly photographs and copies of…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 31 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … French throughout her schooling and studied English for five years When she started teaching science in 1966 the textbooks were in French and classes were conducted in Cambodian A government translation pro…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 32 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … that they do not fall too far behind Americans of the same age For Madorom HUOT has made a decision that illustrates the dilemma that con fronts many Cambodian parents She decided…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 33 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … school or junior high they would be lost if placed with Americans of their own age or it would take them forever to finish if they started at a lower grade than…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 34 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … compelling CHUNG Huon states that if his children asked him why study Cambodian He would explain to them why they have to learn Cambodian He loves his country so hed like his…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 35 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … would perhaps benefit greatly from continued schooling must instead seek work This problem is especially pronounced for those in their twenties who would like to attend college but who cannot because their…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 36 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … bration who built the stage for the band and who served refreshments Although they are no longer able to serve their homeland they are able to help preserve its culture And although…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 37 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … resistance and rejection on the part of some young Cambodians Language is the keystone of the cultural edifice that the school and Village are dedicated to preserving because it is the most…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 38 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … The Cambodian lessons in the Village school are central to the endeavor of transmitting cultural knowledge and language is the most crucial connector but that does not exhaust the efforts toward cultural…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 39 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … train and also develop among themselves THOMAS C1OB355 And Yani KEO would like to teach Cambodian literacy to refugees elsewhere in the city some of whom have already asked if they could…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
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Image 40 of Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in … teaching has been curtailed She has also enrolled in Houston Community College to pursue a degree in chemistry and her studying for those classes is yet another demand on her time Finally…- Contributor: Proschan, Frank
- Date: 1982-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Final reports: The Cambodian/Khmer School, Houston, Texas, Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection
Names
- Proschan, Frank (Author)
Created / Published
- Houston, Texas, 1982
Headings
- - Cambodian Americans
- - Manuscripts
- - Ethnography
- - reports
- - United States -- Texas -- Houston
Genre
- Manuscripts
- Ethnography
- reports
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in. or smaller
Call Number/Physical Location
- Call number: AFC 1993/001: Box 4, Folder 8
Source Collection
- Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection (AFC 1993/001)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
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- image
- online text