Allying and Aligning: Teachers' Extra-Curricular Work, Meritocracy and State-Sponsored Scholarships in Singapore

Autor/inn/en	Foo, Aloysius; Yang, Peidong
Titel	Allying and Aligning: Teachers' Extra-Curricular Work, Meritocracy and State-Sponsored Scholarships in Singapore
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43 (2022) 7, S.1076-1093 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Foo, Aloysius) ORCID (Yang, Peidong)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2022.2112658
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Scholarships; Social Mobility; Teacher Role; Extracurricular Activities; Disadvantaged; Social Capital; Cultural Capital; Teacher Student Relationship; Socioeconomic Status; Teaching Methods; Selective Admission; Institutional Characteristics; Secondary School Students; Student Characteristics; College Admission; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Scholarship; Stipendium; Soziale Mobilität; Lehrerrolle; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Sozialkapital; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsselektion; Sekundarschüler; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Singapur
Abstract	Research in education has long noted teachers' role in assisting social and ideological reproduction. Separately, scholarship has also investigated the use of extra-curricular activities in equipping disadvantaged students with social and cultural capital, to embark on social mobility. Positioned at the intersection of these two apparently disparate strands, this paper presents a case in which teachers' extra-curricular work is seen to simultaneously enact subtle socio-ideological reproduction, and the facilitation of social mobility attainment. Specifically, the paper draws on a study of how teachers in a lower-status junior college in Singapore prepare their students in applying for prestigious state-sponsored scholarships. Through teachers' extra-curricular work of "allying" and "aligning," social mobility and social reproduction are simultaneously made possible, yet also exist in some tension. Thus, this paper offers a unique sociological perspective on teachers' extra-curricular work and its significance for broader issues of meritocracy, social mobility, and social reproduction. (As Provided).
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