Is It Time to Let Meritocracy Go?: Examining the Case of Singapore

ISBN-13: 9781138320000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 212 str.

Nadira Talib

Opis

This book examines the changing role of meritocracy within the context of Singaporean education and society. The author analyses education policies and draws on a synthesis of philosophical perspectives and Critical Discourse Analysis in order to determine the role meritocracy plays and questions if it's time to let it go.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Questions and Themes  2. Creating the Conditions for Division and Structural Inequality: The Human Being as a Historical Construct  3. Using Genealogy and Ethics to Investigate the Conditioning of Human Beings into Moral Subjects who Desire More  4. Micro-meso-macro Movements: A Multi-level Critical Discourse Analysis Framework to Examine the Value of Truth  5. Theme 1: Metaphorical Realism  6. Theme 2: De/regulation  7. Theme 3: Political Economies of Surrealism  8. Inequality as Meritocracy

O autorze

Nadira Talib holds a PhD from The University of Queensland, Australia. She focuses on developing a method of synthesising philosophical deliberations with discourse analysis in analysing social policy. In questioning the systems that separate and divide human beings one from another, her work centres on examining how adhering to the perceived demands of surrealistic political economies is imbricated within the relations of morality and ethics. Her publications are featured in ScienceDaily and in an editorial review of 'The Top 100 Cited Discourse Studies' in the subject area of ‘linguistics and language’, in the years 2015–2019.