Meritocracy, Policy and Pedagogy: Culture and the Politics of Recognition and Redistribution in Singapore

Autor/inn/en	Lim, Leonel; Tan, Michael
Titel	Meritocracy, Policy and Pedagogy: Culture and the Politics of Recognition and Redistribution in Singapore
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 61 (2020) 3, S.279-295 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lim, Leonel) ORCID (Tan, Michael)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2018.1450769
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Ability; Social Systems; Ideology; Social Influences; Public Policy; Competition; Educational Policy; Cultural Influences; Equal Education; Track System (Education); Student Diversity; Art Education; Social Change; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Social system; Soziales System; Ideologie; Sozialer Einfluss; Öffentliche Ordnung; Wettkampf; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Leistungsgruppe; Leistungsdifferenzierung; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Sozialer Wandel; Singapur
Abstract	Ideas about merit and the associated notion of a meritocracy have long been drawn upon to frame and understand a range of issues central to education policy. Little attention, however, is given to how in practice and through the workings of policy, meritocracy functions as an ideology that is struggled over by various social groups and pedagogic agents. Focusing on classroom pedagogic practices in Singapore, this article explores the ways in which in an ostensibly meritocratic education system, teachers interpret and negotiate ideas about culture to engage their students in the system's low-progress tracks. We argue that these teachers are creatively resisting, even challenging official discourses of meritocracy and engaging in what Nancy Fraser calls struggles over recognition and redistribution. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01