Peidong Yang
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2016
9781137591425
International Mobility and Educational Desire
Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9781137591425
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Anthropological Studies of Education
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students’ educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society’s concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781137591425
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
1. Introduction.- 2. Contexts: Singapore’s foreign talent programs and the Chinese middle school as a recruiting ground.- 3. Selecting scholars for Singapore: the SM2 program.- 4. Singlish and the Singaporean: cross-cultural encounter and othering.- 5. Being “very China”: self-consciousness and identity transformation.- 6. Desiring an education: scholarly idealism and anti-scholarly entrepreneurialism.