The Early Graduation Gambit of Japanese High-School Sojourners in the US: Organizing Educational Paths across Borders

Autor/in	Alexander, Mariko Mizuno
Titel	The Early Graduation Gambit of Japanese High-School Sojourners in the US: Organizing Educational Paths across Borders
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 36 (2016) 3, S.350-363 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
DOI	10.1080/02188791.2014.959467
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Study Abroad; Educational Experience; Student Experience; High School Students; Graduation Requirements; Ethnography; Learning Strategies; Asians; Semi Structured Interviews; High Achievement; Acceleration (Education); Exit Examinations; Educational Needs; Student Mobility; Qualitative Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Bildungserfahrung; Studienerfahrung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Abschlussordnung; Ethnografie; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Acceleration; Beschleunigung; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Mobility; Mobilität; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	While there is a growing presence of trans-Pacific migrant students in the US, relatively little attention has been given to the diversity among them in terms of their everyday experiences and future educational trajectories shaped by different patterns of transnational mobilities and practices. This paper addresses the distinctive educational experiences and needs of transnational Japanese students, temporarily enrolled in US schools accompanying their parents on business appointments from transnational corporations. This institutional ethnographic study examines the strategies that these sojourner students use to negotiate the institutional demands of US high-school life and the way to promote access to tertiary education in Japan. The findings show that, although corporate transnationalism restricts Japanese sojourners' geographical mobility, they still actively construct their futures through the high-stakes strategy of graduating a year early from US high schools. I call this early graduation scheme a gambit because the sojourners sacrifice beneficial opportunities and even risk their graduation itself in the hope of securing a positional advantage upon their return to their home country. The early graduation gambit is analysed through a lens of transnationalism. (As Provided).
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