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Families, the state and educational inequality in the Singapore city-state / Charleen Chiong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chiong, Charleen, author.
- Series:
- Routledge critical studies in Asian education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational equalization--Singapore.
- Education and state--Research--Singapore.
- Education and state--Research.
- Education and state.
- Educational equalization.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 161 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Charleen Chiong adopts sociological approaches to understanding inequality and social policy problems. In line with her interests in integrating research, policy and practice, Charleen has undertaken research in academic, think-tank and public sector contexts. Her research has been published in Journal of Education Policy, Comparative Education, Families, Relationships and Societies and the British Educational Research Journal. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge, and a Master of Science in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Morning. Start of the Day
- The Ontology of Governance in Singapore
- Part 2. Noon. Forming State-Family Relations: A Historical Perspective
- Responsible Lives: Families as Pedagogic Actors
- Dependency and the Politics of Expertise
- Part 3. Night. Back from Work, or the Start of it
- The Plausibility of Responsibility
- Epilogue: When 'Peaceful Coexistence' is Not Enough.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 19, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chiong, Charleen. Families, the state and educational inequality in the Singapore city-state
- ISBN:
- 9781003125419
- 1003125417
- 9781000457117
- 1000457117
- 9781000457094
- 1000457095
- Publisher Number:
- 40030773885
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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