A Pathway to 'Constant Becoming': Time, Temporalities and the Construction of Self among South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore

Autor/in	Kang, Yoonhee
Titel	A Pathway to 'Constant Becoming': Time, Temporalities and the Construction of Self among South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39 (2018) 5, S.798-813 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2018.1435584
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Immigrants; Mother Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Academic Aspiration; Global Approach; Futures (of Society); Parent Child Relationship; Parenting Styles; Student Mobility; Foreign Countries; Ethnography; Secondary School Students; Elementary School Students; Time Management; Occupational Aspiration; South Korea; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Mutterliebe; Schülerverhalten; Globales Denken; Future; Society; Zukunft; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Ausland; Ethnografie; Sekundarschüler; Zeitmanagement; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Korea; Republik; Singapur
Abstract	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 analyze (1) the discrepant experiences of time and temporalities between Korean students and their accompanying mothers, and (2) the intersections between the Korean migrants' subjective experiences of time and their imaginings of social positioning in transnational contexts. The Korean students' identities were often imagined and constituted through a chronotope of 'constant becoming' oriented toward the future and the global, while their mothers typically conceptualized and expressed their migration experiences as a confined time of 'intensive mothering', reflecting a chronotope of traditional mothering that often belongs to pre-modern time and space. Thus, revealing the chronotopes of the different generations promotes understanding of their shifting identities as articulated through multiple scales of time and space, mediating between the present and the future, and the local and the global. (As Provided).
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