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Critical Studies of Education in Asia : Knowledge, Power and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms, PDF eBook

Critical Studies of Education in Asia : Knowledge, Power and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms PDF

Edited by Leonel (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Lim, Michael W. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Apple

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Critical Studies of Education in Asia features analyses that take seriously the complex postcolonial, historical, and cultural consciousnesses felt across societies in Asia, and that bring these to bear on the changing terrain of knowledge, subjectivities, and power relations constructed both within schools and across the public sphere. In documenting the multiple sites of conflict and contestation both between and within states in Asia and a host of pedagogic agents – ministries of education, state boards and agencies, schools, teachers and teacher unions, university departments of education, local interest groups, the media, international standards agencies, and global educational reform discourses – the chapters in this volume illuminate the struggles over knowledge, education, and the work of schools.

Faced with emergent global and local forces that are determined to challenge ‘official’ knowledge and to offer alternative understandings of education and society in Asia, this volume offers critical insights for academic researchers, policy- makers, and graduate students seeking to understand the tensions and possibilities of educational change in the region.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Curriculum Inquiry.

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