Module 4: Hmong Americans and Education
Have Hmong Americans found home in the United States?
This module discusses Hmong educational experiences, including schooling during the war in Laos, in refugee camps, and in the United States. It highlights Hmong people’s relationships to education as a process of struggle that includes the challenges of learning within a Eurocentric system, and how knowledge empowers students to imagine a just future.
How is education a site of struggle for culture and identity for Hmong Americans?
How have Hmong American students experienced deficit thinking and criminalization in schools?
How are Hmong Americans transforming their own educational experiences through community knowledge?
