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1 online resource |
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education Ser |
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Japanese culture and overseas schooling: critiquing academic miscreance and pretentions to objectivity and generalizability -- Giving due attention to matters of accountability, contextual and historical importance -- Drawing (on) lessons from the response as backgrounding for subsequent discussion on criticality -- a logically storied concatenation toward praxis -- Anatomizing |
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Generalizability': miscreance and mischief through the management and subversion of meaning -- Finding resonance and support in humanizing motifs -- Chapter content -- References -- 2. The Japanese in Japan (and overseas) -- veracity and actuality within a Japanese ethos -- as key cultural concepts to understanding Japaneseness -- and -- Internationalization, dealings with the outside and its detractors -- and English language learning in Japan -- The culpability of the high-hand of history and education in -- perpetuation |
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Internally constructed meanings, autopoietic aspects and explanations of -- imaginaries and effects on the imagination and practice -- Meanings held in abeyance as a frustration as well as a door of hope -- References -- 3. Singapore: colonization, independence and industrialization -- The founding of modern Singapore -- Independence from British rule and warming of relations with Japan -- Japan's contribution to Singapore's postwar economic growth -- Growth in volume and scope of Japanese investment -- Learn from Japan' drive and Singapore's admiration for the -- The -- Japanese Model' |
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The signing of Singapore's Free Trade Agreement with Japan -- Singapore's education system: technology, competitiveness and meritocracy -- Singapore's interest and involvement in international education -- International schools in Singapore -- Concluding remarks -- References -- 4. Singapore's Japanese presence: businesses, institutions and symbolisms -- Moving into the South' -- Understanding the history and politics of Japan's -- The proliferation of Japanese businesses in Singapore -- The Japanese business community in Singapore |
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Foreshadowing other particularities: the schooling of Japanese children -- References -- 5. Japanese schooling in Singapore: institutions, ideologies and identity investments -- Institution A (IA): a social body for Japanese residents -- Institution B (IB): a Japanese -- international' elementary school -- Institution C (IC): a registered cooperative society -- Institution D (ID): a supplementary weekend language school -- Storytelling -- Deconstructing the workings of ideology: a critical analysis of ideological enactments involving Institutions A to D |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Japanese -- Education -- Singapore
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Education -- Singapore
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Japanese -- Ethnic identity
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Education.
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Japanese.
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Japanese -- Education.
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Singapore.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000192926 |
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100019292X |
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9781000193022 |
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1000193020 |
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9781000192971 |
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1000192970 |
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9781003083559 |
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1003083552 |
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