How Gifted Indian American Students and Their Families Perceive Factors of Success

There is a sparsity of research focusing on the experiences of Asian-Indian American students. This study describes how gifted Indian American students and their families perceived factors contributing to students’ academic success. Specifically, this study used a qualitative case study design to describe the perceptions of four families. The data collection of open-ended interviews, observations of students during school, and student-selected artifacts were utilized for an in-depth understanding of their perspectives on home, school, culture, and self. Through analysis, the following themes emerged: academic home climate, parents push—in a good way, planning for the future, the gifted label, participants’ schools in the United States, teachers matter, values of Indian culture, challenges of living in the United States, the model minority stereotype, parents’ educational backgrounds, competition, motivation, and mindset: intelligence results from work ethic. Results indicated that participants believed a confluence of these factors contributed to the students’ academic success.

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San Carlos Apache Cattle Industry

Human Organization ◽

10.17730/humo.20.4.367350j025r76763 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 181-186

Author(s):

Harry Getty

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Culture System ◽

The United States ◽

Bureau Of Indian Affairs ◽

Indian Culture ◽

Cattle Industry ◽

Hereford Cattle ◽

Set Up ◽

San Carlos

The complete assimilation of the Indian cultures into the general culture of the United States has been, and still is, the goal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The program put into operation to achieve this purpose has been set up in terms of total and approximately simultaneous assimilation in all aspects of culture. Yet, in many instances, specific segments of an Indian culture have been singled out and brought under pressure to change without sufficient consideration as to: 1) how the change would affect relationships with the rest of the culture system, or 2) how existing relationships might affect the proposed change. An example of this selective type of directed culture change is the case study outlined in this paper, the Hereford cattle industry of the San Carlos Indians.

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Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v7i1.178 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 33-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Qualitative Research ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Social Relations ◽

The United States ◽

Research Strategy ◽

The Future ◽

Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

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‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

Scottish Archaeological Journal ◽

10.3366/saj.2014.0054 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 36-37 (1) ◽

pp. 163-183

Author(s):

Paul Taylor

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Context ◽

Moral Education ◽

The United States ◽

Representative Case ◽

National Museums ◽

The Individual ◽

The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

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