Healthy Competition and Unsound Comparison: Reforming Educational Competition in Singapore

Autor/in	Christensen, Søren
Titel	Healthy Competition and Unsound Comparison: Reforming Educational Competition in Singapore
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13 (2015) 4, S.553-573 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2014.979769
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Competition; Educational Change; Barriers; Knowledge Economy; Holistic Approach; Equal Education; Ideology; Social Systems; Politics of Education; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wettkampf; Bildungsreform; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Holistischer Ansatz; Ideologie; Social system; Soziales System; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Singapur
Abstract	It is frequently claimed that the "competition state" responds to external competition by making competition increasingly central to its internal processes as well. This article discusses education reform in Singapore as departing from the opposite position. In Singapore "excessive" competition in education is now targeted by policy-makers as a major obstacle to making Singapore education competitive in the global "knowledge economy". Nevertheless, the consequence of education reform does not seem to be a reduction of educational competition as such, but rather a transition from an "academic" to a "holistic" form of competition, raising new questions of educational equity and fairness. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01