Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore - Blackburn, Kevin
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Singapore under the ruling People's Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state, which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation building agenda. Having said that, the colonial state had been using education to meet the demands of its colonial economy well before the rise of the post-independence developmental state. 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.…mehr

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Singapore under the ruling People's Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state, which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation building agenda. Having said that, the colonial state had been using education to meet the demands of its colonial economy well before the rise of the post-independence developmental state. 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.
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Autorenporträt
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).