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200 10$aInternational Mobility and Educational Desire $eChinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore /$fby Peidong Yang
205   $a1st ed. 2016.
210  1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource (147 p.)
225 1 $aAnthropological Studies of Education
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-137-59142-0 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
327   $a1. 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. .
330   $aThis book examines the Singapore government?s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service ?bond?. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese ?foreign talent? students? educational and cross-cultural experiences in Singapore to illustrate the complex intersections between international mobility and educational desire. In doing so, the book presents contemporary Singapore society?s concerns over immigration and cross-cultural encounters from a unique perspective.
410  0$aAnthropological Studies of Education
606   $aEducational sociology
606   $aInternational education 
606   $aComparative education
606   $aSociology of Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O29000
606   $aInternational and Comparative Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O13000
607   $aSingapore$xEmigration and immigration
607   $aSingapore$xForeign relations$zChina
607   $aChina$xForeign relations$zSingapore
607   $aChina$2fast
607   $aSingapore$2fast
615  0$aEducational sociology.
615  0$aInternational education .
615  0$aComparative education.
615 14$aSociology of Education.
615 24$aInternational and Comparative Education.
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