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’ educational and cross-cultural experienc...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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Σειρά: | Anthropological Studies of Education
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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. .