International Mobility and Educational Desire : Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore / / by Peidong Yang

• Autore: Yang Peidong
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (147 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.1162095957
• Soggetto topico: Educational sociology; International education; Comparative education; Sociology of Education; International and Comparative Education
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. .
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: International Mobility and Educational Desire
• ISBN: 9781137591432; 1137591439
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910254972903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropological Studies of Education, . 2946-3041