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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.
List of 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./
About the author
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.
