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: |
April 2022 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Glenn Toh
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
162 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-53867-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-367-53867-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780367538675 |
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