Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore

List of contents

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Introduction

1.The ‘Education-Economy’ Nexus and Colonial Singapore (1819-1900)
2.Vocational and Technical Education and the Colonial Administration (1901-1941)
3.Decolonization, Education and the Singapore Economy (1942-1959)
4.Using Education to Create an Industrial Workforce (1959-1990s)
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Kevin Blackburn is Associate Professor in History at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has taught in Singapore since 1993, when he left the History Department of the University of Queensland to take up his present teaching position. He has co-authored with Karl Hack Did Singapore Have to Fall? (2004) and War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012).

Summary

Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore examines how the state’s use of education as an instrument of economic policy had its origins in the colonial economy and intensified during the process of decolonization.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Blackburn, Kevin (National Institute of Education Blackburn, Kevin (National Institute of Singapore Blackburn, Blackburn Kevin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138365704
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36570-4
• No. of pages: 122
• Series: Routledge Studies in Educational History and Development in Asia; Routledge Studies in Educational History and Development in Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Education, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Comparative, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Singapore, Educational psychology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, History of Education, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence