02942nam 22005655 450 991025497290332120231108194928.09781137591432113759143910.1057/978-1-137-59143-2(CKB)3710000000735026(EBL)4716724(DE-He213)978-1-137-59143-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4716724(Perlego)3493394(EXLCZ)99371000000073502620160620d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInternational Mobility and Educational Desire Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore /by Peidong Yang1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (147 p.)Anthropological Studies of Education,2946-3041Description based upon print version of record.9781137591425 1137591420 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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. .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.Anthropological Studies of Education,2946-3041Educational sociologyInternational educationComparative educationSociology of EducationInternational and Comparative EducationEducational sociology.International education.Comparative education.Sociology of Education.International and Comparative Education.370.1162095957Yang Peidongauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut915151BOOK9910254972903321International Mobility and Educational Desire2511984UNINA