Cross-border shadow education and critical pedagogy : questioning neoliberal and parochial orders in Singapore / Glenn Toh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toh, Glenn, author.

Series:

Palgrave studies on global policy and critical futures in education education.

Palgrave studies on global policy and critical futures in education education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-formal education--Singapore.

Non-formal education.

Non-formal education--Japan.

Tutors and tutoring--Singapore.

Tutors and tutoring.

Tutors and tutoring--Japan.

Japan.

Singapore.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (color).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Summary:

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity. The central theme of the book is a cross-border critical ethnographic study of the shadow education practices of an overseas Japanese business community in Singapore which draws attention to the elaborate extent to which families are engaged in shadow or cram tutoring practices as part of their childrens education, supported by the strong presence of overseas branches of well-established corporate tutoring businesses headquartered in Japan. 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 returning to Singapore, Glenn taught in Tamagawa University in Tokyo and in the City University of Hong Kong. He has published books on language, ideology, power, and education and maintains a keen interest on developments in the area.

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./.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: TOH, GLENN. CROSS-BORDER SHADOW EDUCATION AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY.

ISBN:

9783030928322

3030928322

OCLC:

1304830984

Access Restriction:

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