International Graduates Returning to Vietnam Experiences of the Local Economies, Universities and Communities /

• Main Author: Pham, Lien (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 48
• Subjects: International education .; Comparative education.; Professional education.; Vocational education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; International and Comparative Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book examines the extent to which studying and living overseas enable returning graduates to enhance their professional work and contribute to community development. It assesses the transformative potential that returnees are assumed to have in terms of capabilities and skills acquired through...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Theoretical orientation: Citizenship, capital and capabilities
• 1 International education: A potentiality for ethical development
• 2 Sen-Bourdieu frameowork: Conceptualising normative agency
• Part II From theory to praxis: A sociological analysis of capabilities in Vietnamese international graduates
• 3 Applying the Sen-Bourdieu framework
• 4 Encountering the Vietnamese habitus
• 5 Priorities, motivations and expeactions of returnees
• Part III Empirical observations in the three 'fields'
• 7 'Intellectual' field: Education reformers and conformers
• 8 'Civic' field: Negotiating the ideals of community, citizenship and commmunity work
• Part IV Conclusion
• 9 Conclusion: Implication for theory, policy and practice.