Education in East Asia
About: This article is published in Compare.The article was published on 2015-09-03. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Far East & Orient.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socioeconomic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations.
Abstract: In this editorial article we frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socio-economic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations. We critically engage with interdisciplinary debates that conceptualise youth futures and provide an overview of current literature on this topic. Using the intense dynamism of the contemporary Asian region as a lens, we examine the complexities of education and employment landscapes young people are attempting to navigate or avoid; and highlight the implications this has for understanding the nexus between education and employment. Finally, this special issue highlights work by Asian and Asia-based scholars and is part of an intellectual project to make Asian young people more visible within Geography, Anthropology and related disciplines. The collection serves as a showcase of inter-disciplinary scholarship focusing on the complexities of young Asian lives in relatio...
58 citations
TL;DR: In the last three rounds of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for Internati... as mentioned in this paper, East Asia is on the rise once again as a source of educational inspiration.
Abstract: East Asia is on the rise once again as a source of educational inspiration. After the last three rounds of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for Internati...
31 citations
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...Along with many other books on East Asian education published around the same time (e.g., Hsieh, 2013), they are likely to be read by wider audience beyond the closed circle of education policy scholarship....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how aspirations of youth in India's regional towns are influenced by their geographic marginalisation, and demonstrate that regional youth feel disadvantaged in their access to middle-class jobs, modern education and lifestyles associated with neoliberal globalisation.
Abstract: Youth in India’s regional towns face a paradox: they are exposed to discourses of neoliberal globalisation through education and media, yet are unable to seize the benefits of globalisation, due to regional isolation. In this paper, we explore how aspirations of youth in India’s regional towns are influenced by their geographic marginalisation. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Darjeeling, a regional town in West Bengal, we demonstrate that regional youth feel disadvantaged in their access to middle-class jobs, modern education and lifestyles associated with neoliberal globalisation. Consequently, they express strong desires for ‘exposure,’ which can only be met through migration, particularly to India’s metropolitan cities. They are frustrated in their aspiration to migrate, however, as they feel constrained by the traditional family structure, discrimination in the larger cities and the uneven temporalities between regional towns and ‘global India.’ Their experiences ...
29 citations
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...…point to the ways in which globalisation seemingly offers new opportunities, but these are taken often at great personal costs and with impacts that are often unintended and consequential (Liechty 2003; Yamashita and Eades 2003; Rankin 2004; Ganguly-Scrase and Scrase 2009; Baviskar and Ray 2011)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue of Children's Geographies built upon a growing area of study on the emotional and affectual experiences of migration as experienced by young people is presented.
Abstract: This special issue of Children's Geographies builds upon a growing area of study on the emotional and affectual experiences of migration as experienced by young people. The special issue represents...
14 citations
Cites background from "Education in East Asia"
...…been made in both adult-centred migration scholarship, and youth migration research within Asia (Collins et al. 2014; Czaika and Vothknecht 2014; Brown, Scrase, and Ganguly-Scrase 2017; Carling and Collins 2017; Corbett and Forsey 2017; Watkins, Ho, and Butler 2017; Nugroho, Cho, and Collins 2018)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socioeconomic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations.
Abstract: In this editorial article we frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socio-economic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations. We critically engage with interdisciplinary debates that conceptualise youth futures and provide an overview of current literature on this topic. Using the intense dynamism of the contemporary Asian region as a lens, we examine the complexities of education and employment landscapes young people are attempting to navigate or avoid; and highlight the implications this has for understanding the nexus between education and employment. Finally, this special issue highlights work by Asian and Asia-based scholars and is part of an intellectual project to make Asian young people more visible within Geography, Anthropology and related disciplines. The collection serves as a showcase of inter-disciplinary scholarship focusing on the complexities of young Asian lives in relatio...
58 citations
TL;DR: In the last three rounds of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for Internati... as mentioned in this paper, East Asia is on the rise once again as a source of educational inspiration.
Abstract: East Asia is on the rise once again as a source of educational inspiration. After the last three rounds of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for Internati...
31 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how aspirations of youth in India's regional towns are influenced by their geographic marginalisation, and demonstrate that regional youth feel disadvantaged in their access to middle-class jobs, modern education and lifestyles associated with neoliberal globalisation.
Abstract: Youth in India’s regional towns face a paradox: they are exposed to discourses of neoliberal globalisation through education and media, yet are unable to seize the benefits of globalisation, due to regional isolation. In this paper, we explore how aspirations of youth in India’s regional towns are influenced by their geographic marginalisation. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Darjeeling, a regional town in West Bengal, we demonstrate that regional youth feel disadvantaged in their access to middle-class jobs, modern education and lifestyles associated with neoliberal globalisation. Consequently, they express strong desires for ‘exposure,’ which can only be met through migration, particularly to India’s metropolitan cities. They are frustrated in their aspiration to migrate, however, as they feel constrained by the traditional family structure, discrimination in the larger cities and the uneven temporalities between regional towns and ‘global India.’ Their experiences ...
29 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue of Children's Geographies built upon a growing area of study on the emotional and affectual experiences of migration as experienced by young people is presented.
Abstract: This special issue of Children's Geographies builds upon a growing area of study on the emotional and affectual experiences of migration as experienced by young people. The special issue represents...
14 citations