Adventure Education and the Acculturation of First-Generation Chinese Canadians in Vancouver, Canada. (June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lo, Simon; Gidlow, Bob; Cushman, Grant
• Is Part Of: Journal of experiential education. Volume 37:Number 2(2014)
• Page Start: 113
• Page End: 128
• Publication Date: 2014-06
• Subjects: adventure education -- selective acculturation -- intergenerational cultural conflicts -- Chinese immigrants; Education -- Periodicals; Experience -- Periodicals; Education -- Experimental methods -- Periodicals; Learning, Psychology of -- Periodicals; 370.1505
• DOI: 10.1177/1053825913489106
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2169-009X

Abstract

This article reports on research that demonstrates how parents in first-generation Chinese families in Vancouver, Canada, most of them from Hong Kong, control their children's involvement in local adventure education (AE) programs and in so doing minimize the likelihood of intergenerational culture conflict involving those children. The research is based on 28 face-to-face, digitally recorded interviews with 14- to 18-year-old participants, their parents, and instructors, in two AE programs in Vancouver, Canada. The interviews were conducted in 2009.