Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education: Questioning Neoliberal and Parochial Orders in Singapore

Toh, Glenn

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 ​d​​ra​w​s attention to the elaborate extent to which families are engaged in shadow or cram tutoring practices as part of their children’s 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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2022-03-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030928315

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92832-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 196