Glenn Toh (Singapore Nanyang Technological University)

Japanese Schooling and Identity Investment Overseas

Exploring the Cultural Politics of "Japaneseness" in Singapore

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community, despite the manifestly multicultural ethos of their Singaporean domicile.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780367538668
• ISBN-10: 0367538660
• Artikelnr.: 60019128

Autorenporträt

Glenn Toh teaches in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has written books and articles on language, ideology, power and education and continues to maintain an ongoing interest in current developments in the area.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations 1. Japanese culture and overseas schooling:
critiquing academic miscreance and pretentions to objectivity and
generalizability 2. The Japanese in Japan (and overseas) 3. Singapore:
colonization, independence and industrialization 4. Singapore's Japanese
presence: businesses, institutions and symbolisms 5. Japanese schooling in
Singapore: institutions, ideologies and identity investments 6. Japanese
engagements with English overseas as a cultural politics of control 7.
Interrogating 'Singapore-as-technology' in the reproduction of Japaneseness