Education in the global city the manufacturing of education in Singapore
Education in the Global City examines education in Singapore through the critical lens of 'manufacturing'. The book brings together two disparate fields which inform each other, education and the 'global city'; and the book's contributors analyse and critique the manufacturi...
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Oxon, UK
Routledge
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Education in the global city: the manufacturing of education in Singapore Aaron Koh and Terence Chong 2. Vocational education in Singapore: meritocracy and hidden narratives Terence Chong 3. Language politics and global city Lionel Wee 4. Mobility and desire: international students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore Francis L. Collins, Ravinder Sidhu, Nick Lewis and Brenda S.A. Yeoh 5. Toward a cosmopolitan vision of English education in Singapore Suzanne S. Choo 6. Critical thinking and the anti-liberal state: the politics of pedagogic recontextualization in Singapore Leonel Lim 7. Sex (education) in the city: Singapore's sexuality education curriculum Warren Mark Liew 8. `Inculcating' creativity: culture as public pedagogy in Singapore Terence Lee 9. Doing ``critical'' in a postfeminist era: reviving critical consciousness through peer dialog Michelle M. Lazar