Privilege,Prejudice,Predicament:“PRC Scholars”in Singapore-An Overview  

作　　者：Peidong YANG 

机构地区：[1]School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Nanyang Technological University,Singapore 637332,Singapore

出　　处：《Frontiers of Education in China》2014年第3期350-376,共27页中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）

基　　金：I thank Professor Fred Dervin for organizing the lively conference in Helsinki which led to this publication.I am grateful to Dr.Leong Chan-Hoong for his encouraging comments and constructive criticisms on an earlier version of the paper,and I remain indebted to Prof.C.J.Wee Wan-Ling for his support which enabled my Singapore fieldwork.I thank all the Chinese“foreign talent”scholars in Singapore who took part in my research,and hope that my account has done their experiences justice.

摘　　要：With the rise of educational mobilities worldwide,students’experiences of educational sojourn,especially that of the Chinese Mainland students,have come under greater research attention in recent years.Amongst diverse kinds of Chinese students/scholars abroad,this paper focuses on a type that finds themselves in a unique country under equally unique circumstances:Chinese students studying at pre-and undergraduate levels in Singapore under Singapore’s government-sponsored“foreign talent”scholarship schemes.Based on an ethnographic study conducted over a 16-month period in China and Singapore,this paper presents an overview account of these Chinese student-scholars’sociocultural experiences in Singapore under three headings:(1)privilege-how Singapore’s“foreign talent”policy endows considerable privileges,opportunities,but also responsibilities on these Chinese students;(2)prejudice-how and why these PRC“foreign talents”encounter certain local discourses of discrimination and exclusion;and(3)predicament-how they sometimes experience complex and conflicted feelings about being made Singapore’s“foreign talent.”

关 键 词：Chinese scholars abroad foreign talent international students educational mobility 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]