Despite meritocratic claims of equal opportunity, official
statistics released by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, reveal
that a large segment of the Malay population has sustained the
lowest academic achievement from 1987 to 2011. This statistical
representation raises the possibility of a politically induced,
systemic inequality as a point of investigation. To investigate
this seeming contradiction between the rhetoric and practice of
equal educational opportunity, Nadira Talib analyses education
policies by drawing on a synthesis of philosophical perspectives
and critical discourse analysis as a way of making explicit how the
historical constitution of the learner is linked to the
legitimisation of inequitable education policies that favour
corporatist practices. By making explicit how the underlying
assumption of the policy 'logic' that increasing expenditure on
'talents' must necessarily involve the increasing welfare of
everybody is both unsubstantiated and arbitrary, the book presents
a moral political problem in demonstrating how education policies
are unfounded and unsupported through the idea of meritocracy.
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