Asian Migration and Education Cultures in the Anglosphere

ISBN-13: 9780367180379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 198 str.

Megan Watkins; Christina Ho; Rose Butler

Opis

As Asian migration transform education cultures in the Anglo-sphere, this book challenges the cultural essentialism which prevails in academic and popular discussion of ‘Asian success’ and in relation to Asian education mobilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere 1. ‘We are all Asian here’: multiculturalism, selective schooling and responses to Asian success  2. Why class matters less for Asian-American academic achievement  3. The construction of British Chinese educational success: exploring the shifting discourses in educational debate, and their effects  4. The new meritocracy or over-schooled robots? Public attitudes on Asian–Australian education cultures  5. Representations of East Asian students in the UK media  6. Race and legitimacy: historical formations of academically selective schooling in Australia  7. Education, real estate, immigration: brokerage assemblages and Asian mobilities  8. ‘Tutored within an inch of their life’: morality and ‘old’ and ‘new’ middle class identities in Australian schools  9. Academic segregation and the institutional success frame: unequal schooling and racial disparity in an integrated, affluent community  10. Indian tigers: what high school selection by parents pursing academic performance reveals about class, culture and migration  11. ‘Asian fails’ and the problem of bad Korean boys: multiculturalism and the construction of an educational ‘problem’