Japanese Schooling and Identity Investment Overseas: Exploring the Cultural Politics of Japaneseness in Singapore

ISBN-13: 9780367538668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 152 str.

Glenn Toh

Opis

This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community, despite the manifestly multicultural ethos of their Singaporean domicile.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations 1. Japanese culture and overseas schooling: critiquing academic miscreance and pretentions to objectivity and generalizability  2. The Japanese in Japan (and overseas)  3. Singapore: colonization, independence and industrialization  4. Singapore’s Japanese presence: businesses, institutions and symbolisms  5. Japanese schooling in Singapore: institutions, ideologies and identity investments  6. Japanese engagements with English overseas as a cultural politics of control  7. Interrogating ‘Singapore-as-technology’ in the reproduction of Japaneseness