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Chinese International Secondary School Students as Flexible Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Learning
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Wu, Xi; Tarc, Paul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Guided by the notion of 'flexible citizenship', as a strategy to accumulate and exchange different forms of capital across national borders, our ethnographic study followed eleven Chinese international secondary school students' transnational lives. This paper is focused on how instrumental goals of flexible citizenship cover over the emotional…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Citizenship, Foreign Students
Chinese International Students in a Canadian Private Secondary School: Becoming Flexible Citizens?
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Wu, Xi; Tarc, Paul – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This study employs the notion of 'flexible citizenship,' to examine how national and transnational forces and discursive logics mediate Chinese international secondary school students' educational routes and life trajectories. It draws upon a larger ethnographic research programme that followed 11 Chinese students in a Canadian international…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, High School Students, Private Schools