International Mobility and Educational Desire

Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore

AvPeidong Yang

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Anthropological Studies of Education

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Beskrivning

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”.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-04
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:334 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropological Studies of Education
Antal sidor:136
Upplaga:2016
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137591425

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.