Chinese international secondary school students as flexible citizens: toward cosmopolitan learning.
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...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 645 - 659 |
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