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You are reading: Alex Jun presents “Narratives of Academic Mobility of Disenfranchised Youth in Cambodia”

Earlier this year, Professor Alexander (Alex) Jun from Azusa Pacific University in California visited the NCSEHE as one of the Centre’s 2016 Visiting Fellows. Alex is a renown expert on social mobility, a TED speaker and the author of From Here to University: Access, Mobility, and Resilience Among Urban Latino Youth (Routledge Press, 2001). While he was visiting Perth, Alex gave a presentation discussing his work in Cambodia, focused on the educational mobility and academic resilience of Khmer orphans.

Below is the full audio recording of Professor Alex Jun’s presentation, along with a transcript and his corresponding PowerPoint slides.

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