International Mobility and Educational Desire, 1st ed. 2016 Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore Anthropological Studies of Education Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Yang Peidong
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.
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
Peidong Yang is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include education and migration in the China-Singapore contexts as well as Internet and media in contemporary China.
Examines the impact of Singapore’s foreign talent scholarship practices
Offers an ethnographic account of the student recruitment process in China
Presents the experiences of Chinese students in Singapore through the context of the university setting
Date de parution : 07-2016
Ouvrage de 136 p.
14.8x21 cm
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