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Kang, Yoonhee – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This study explores the significance and complexity of time practices and experiences in understanding the emerging identities and aspirations of South Korean pre-college students and their mothers who moved to Singapore for the children's education. I adopt the notion of chronotope, a spatial-temporal frame for a specific type of personhood, to…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Immigrants, Mother Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Bae, So Hee – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This paper discusses the complex and competing language ideologies that Korean educational migrant families in Singapore hold about the normativity and legitimacy of English language varieties. During their educational migration in Singapore, Korean families show ambivalent attitudes toward the local variety of English in Singapore, Singlish.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Immigrants, Asians, English (Second Language)
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Hoffman, Lois Wladis – New Directions for Child Development, 1988
Data from eight countries were analyzed to explore hypotheses about cross-cultural differences in childrearing patterns. Particular attention is given to LeVine's and Kohn's theories, and Hoffman and Hoffman's new theory that contends that children satisfy certain parental needs and that the satisfaction of specific needs affects parents'…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies