Cross-border Shadow Education and Critical Pedagogy Questioning Neoliberal and Parochial Orders in Singapore

The author ultimately critiques a banking approach to education, particularly in terms of its oppressive and dehumanizing outcomes, sustained by the inner workings of neoliberal forces and mercantilist ideologies. Glenn Toh is Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toh, Glenn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Considering Issues of Criticality and Humanization in Education
  • Chapter 2. Ideologies of Japanese Education Within a Normalizing Cultural Politics of Japaneseness
  • Chapter 3. The Japanese in Singapore: A History of Trade with a Habit of Transplantation and Transposition
  • Chapter 4. Issues and Epistemologies Concerning Education, Work, Labor, Human Capital, (Identity) Investment, and (De) Humanization
  • Chapter 5. Ethnographic Insights into the Culturalized Routines and Regimes of After-School Tutoring for Japanese Expatriate Children
  • Chapter 6. A Concluding Critique of Education, Entrepreneurialism, and Essentialism./