Supporting Korean American Children in Early Childhood Education

Sophia Han is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Learning at the University of South Florida. Jinhee Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. Sohyun Meacham is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. Su-Jeong Wee is an assistant professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Contents (Tentative) Acknowledgments Foreword 1. Our Stories Through Suda (?? ) Introducing Suda (??) Our Background and Her-Stories Our Positioning as Korean American Transnational Mother-Educators Looking Ahead 2. Parental Ethnotheories Raising Korean American Children Cultural and Historical Parenting: Tea-Kyo Developmental Markers in Context: An Example of Sleep Training Social-Emotional Lessons: Balancing Multiple Expectations Disrupting a Tiger Mom Stereotype: We Are So Much More Implications and Resources 3. "What's Your Name?": Children's Names and Naming Practices Children's Names With Family and Cultural Values Juggling Concerns and Desires to Decide on Our Children's Names Naming Practices by Others Children's (Trans)Naming Practices "Hello, My Name is . . .": Rethinking Preferred Names in School Implications and Resources 4. "I Don't See Me!": Picture Books About Asian Americans Scarcity of Children's Picture Books on Asian American: Underrepresentation "Not All Koreans Are Same": Misrepresentation and Within-Group Differences Perpetuating the Tourist Approach to Asian Culture Implications and Resources 5. More Than English: Diverse Translingual Practices in Korean American Transnational Families The Value of Heritage Language Learning and Our Children's Experiences "Do Your Children Speak Korean?": Microaggressions Based on Language and the Perpetual Foreigner Image of Asian Americans Challenging the Hegemony of English and Promoting Translanguaging Pedagogy Implications and Resources Chapter 6. Navigating Invisibility and Microaggressions as Korean American Children and Families "Where are the Asians?": Our Children's Experiences of Marginalization and Invisibility Our Children's Experiences of Being Visible: Microaggressions and Racial Bias From Guilty Parents to Active Advocates Implications and Resources Departing Thoughts about Our Suda (??) and Supporting All American Children Appendix References Index About the Authors