Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore: State Ideology and the Politics of Pedagogic Recontextualization

ISBN-13: 9781138575899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 194 str.

Leonel Lim

Opis

This book examines how critical thinking is regulated in Singapore through the process of what the seminal education theorist Bail Bernstein labelled as "pedagogic recontextualisation". It studies the ways in which Singapore recontextualises its critical thinking methodologies as it grooms its people for an economy focused on "knowledge skills".

Spis treści

1. Beyond Abstraction: The Social and Political Contexts of Teaching Critical Thinking 2. Competencies and Consciousnesses: Mapping the Politics of the Curriculum through the Pedagogic Device 3. The Arbitrariness of Knowledge Fields: Critical Thinking and its Social Logic 4. Critical Thinking and the Singapore State: Meritocracy, Illiberalism and Neoliberalism 5. Profane Knowledge and Instrumental Rationality: Recontextualizing Critical Thinking in a Mainstream School 6. Sacred Knowledge and Elite Dispositions: Recontextualizing Critical Thinking in an Elite School 7. Power, Knowledge and Symbolic Control: Official Pedagogic Identities and the Politics of Recontextualization

O autorze

Leonel Lim is Assistant Professor at the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Singapore. His research focuses on the sociology of curriculum, the politics of education, state power, and elite schooling. In 2014 he was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award in curriculum studies. His current projects include an edited volume (with Michael W. Apple) on the politics of curriculum reform in strong states in Asia (Routledge).