Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore

Name: Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in SingaporeState ideology and the politics of pedagogic recontextualization\nAuthor(s): Leonel Lim\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138575899, 978-1138575899\nSynopsis\nThis book examines how critical thinking is regulated in Singapore through the process of what the influential sociologist of education Basil Bernstein termed \""pedagogic recontextualization\"". The ability of critical thinking to speak to alternative possibilities and individual autonomy as well as its assumptions of a liberal arrangement of society is problematized in Singapores socio-political climate. By examining how such curricular discourses are taken up and enacted in the classrooms of two schools that cater to very different groups in society, the book foregrounds the role of traditional high-status knowledge in the elaboration of class formation and develops a critical understanding of post-devel.