Japanese Schooling and Identity Investment Overseas - Exploring the Cultural Politics of "Japaneseness" in Singapore (Hardcover)

This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community. Specifically, it seeks to understand particular ways in which the Japanese white-collar elite live as a closed and self-referentially defined in-group, despite the manifestly multicultural ethos of their Singaporean domicile. The study attends to issues regarding schooling, unity, diversity and community based on grounded anthropological observations. Specific observations centre around the particularities of Japanese nation-state schooling practices set in cosmopolitan Singapore, a contrastingly non-Japanese setting. The insights therein are made possible by way of seeing education as an ideological domain and powerful discursive platform. Using this framework, cultural and identity-related practices are viewed dynamically and appreciated for their fluidic reflection of identity praxes. Readers will gain fresh insights into the role of education and ideology in reproducing asymmetry and the value of sociohistorical analyses in surfacing hidden power relations. Researchers, educators and decision makers will appreciate the transparency of grounded ethnographic observation yielding insights into practices which imbricate inclusion-exclusion and privilege-marginalization debates within a neoliberal hegemony. Students of the social politics of education and the cultural politics of language, ideology and identity will find the book a provocative read.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Glenn Toh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-53866-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Primary / junior schools Promotions
LSN:	0-367-53866-0
Barcode:	9780367538668

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