Marissa K L E

Discourses of Neoliberalism in Singapore's Higher Education Context

Individualist and Communitarian Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to contribute to a growing corpus of literature on how higher education around the world is being reshaped by neoliberal policies. In contrast to much of this work, which is mostly situated in western democracies, this work is based on fieldwork in the authoritarian city-state of Singapore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780367559656
• ISBN-10: 036755965X
• Artikelnr.: 64658254

Autorenporträt

Marissa K. L. E is a Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics, critical multimodal discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory. She has published and presented in the areas of social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, multiliteracies and the use of multimodality for educational purposes. She has previously worked on research projects in digital humanities, social semiotics and multimodal discourse analysis.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Theory and Context1. Introduction 2. Neoliberalism as Concept, and
in the Singapore Context 3. Neoliberalism as Discourse 4. Higher Education,
Neoliberal Logics, Neoliberal Subjectivity and Neoliberal Citizenship 5.
Neoliberal Sub-Discourses in the Singapore Higher Education Context PART
II: Analysis6. A Social Semiotic Approach to Analysing Neoliberal Discourse
7. Sub-Discourse of Future-Orientedness 8. Sub-Discourse of Community 9.
Sub-Discourse of Cool Culture PART III: Implications10. Analytical
Findings: Individualism and Communitarianism 11. Neoliberal Complementarity