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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin; Halse, Christine Margaret – Journal of Educational Change, 2021
This paper examines the global implications of policy borrowing, employing case examples of Chinese school systems, which enjoy the success of grafting new identities to improve education. The paper comments on contemporary scholars' use of identity grafting theory (Lee in Managing Chineseness: identity and ethnic management in Singapore, Palgrave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Ethnicity, Educational Change
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Lu, Luke – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In order to counter low birthrates, the Singapore state recruits top-performing students from China and Vietnam with scholarships to augment the local talent pool. Another criterion is that most immigrants must be ethnically Chinese, so as to fit into Singapore's majority racial group. This study examines whether and how race (or other factors)…
Descriptors: Race, Advantaged, Self Determination, High Achievement
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Jesuvadian, Mercy Karuniah; Wright, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This paper explores special issues that a novice, minority researcher encountered at a multi-racial research site. The first author's personal experiences as a female, Tamil-speaking Indian Singaporean shaped the research process and its reception at the research site. In this paper, she observes that, while her ethnic membership operated as a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Researchers, Individual Characteristics, Qualitative Research
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers comprises proceedings from the 5th English in South East Asia Conference, held in December 2000 at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. The 19 papers include the following: (1) "Global English and Local Language Policies" (Robert Phillipson); (2) "Hong Kong Parents' Preference for English-Medium…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education