International Mobility and Educational Desire Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore /

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' educationa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yang, Peidong (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Anthropological Studies of Education
Subjects:
Educational sociology.
International education .
Comparative education.
Sociology of Education.
International and Comparative Education.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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. .

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