Critical Studies of Education in Asia: Knowledg, Lim, Apple..

Taylor & Francis

Critical Studies of Education in AsiaKnowledge, Power and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms\nAuthor(s): Leonel Lim, Michael W. Apple\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138352780, 978-1138352780\nSynopsis\nCritical Studies of Education in Asia features analyses that take seriously the complex postcolonial, historical, and cultural consciousnesses felt across societies in Asia, and that bring these to bear on the changing terrain of knowledge, subjectivities, and power relations constructed both within schools and across the public sphere.\n\nIn documenting the multiple sites of conflict and contestation both between and within states in Asia and a host of pedagogic agents ministries of education, state boards and agencies, schools, teachers and teacher unions, university departments of education, local interest groups, the media, international standards agencies, and global educational reform discourses the chapt.