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

• Main Author: Yang, Peidong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Anthropological Studies of Education
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.

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...

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. .