Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia
Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces
Authors: Sidhu, Ravinder K., Kong Chong, Ho, Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
Free Preview- Examines intra-Asian student mobility in the context of university-driven processes of globalisation in Asia
- Focuses on mobile students who are attracted by the strategic global visions of institutional policymakers and who choose to study in an Asian university
- Uses emotions as a tool of analysis to explore how and why students develop a distinctly regional political consciousness which includes a sense of regional solidarity
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- About this book
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This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build ‘knowledge economies’ and ‘world-class’ profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights into the relations between emotions, nation and subjectivity. The book challenges Eurocentric views of Asia as a space of volatile nationalist rivalries. By offering richly textured portraits of mobile students, it questions contemporary memes about the utility-maximising Asian learner. This is a thought-provoking text that will appeal to university researchers, academics and students interested in the changing architectures of international education.
- About the authors
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Ravinder K. Sidhu is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Ho Kong Chong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.
Brenda S. A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Emotional Geographies of International Students: Beginning an East Asian Conversation
Pages 1-29
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Assembling East Asian Knowledge Spaces
Pages 31-55
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Emotional Geographies of University Officialdom
Pages 57-83
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The Cultural Politics of Emplacement
Pages 85-114
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‘Feeling Regional’
Pages 115-136
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia
- Book Subtitle
- Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces
- Authors
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- Ravinder K. Sidhu
- Ho Kong Chong
- Brenda S. A. Yeoh
- Series Title
- Mobility & Politics
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-27856-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-27856-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27855-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 163
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics