Schooling and education for globalization in Singapore: Prescriptive experimentation in education policy

Aaron Soon Lee KOH

Schooling and education for globalization in Singapore: Prescriptive experimentation in education policy

Aaron Soon Lee KOH

Department of English Language Education (ELE)

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Abstract

This paper presents an analytic account of how a small city-state, said to be the most globalized city in the world, experiment with globalization by looking to “education” as the resource to produce subject-citizens with the requisite skills for the global economy. My analysis focuses on the “Thinking Schools, Learning Nation” (TSLN) policy rolled out in 1997 and a few other important reforms that took place thereafter. I mobilize the term “prescriptive experimentation” to reveal the culture of education policy making in Singapore, and its politics.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - May 2010
Event	Global Crisis and Beyond Conference - University of Illinois, United States Duration: 01 May 2010 → 31 May 2010

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Conference	Global Crisis and Beyond Conference
Country/Territory	United States
Period	01/05/10 → 31/05/10

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

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