Education in the Global City

Aaron Koh is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research areas include cultural studies in education, global education studies, and language arts and literacy. He is on the Editorial Board of Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. He is also the Series Editor of Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinary in Education. He is one of the investigators of ‘Elite Schools in Globalizing Circumstances’, a multi-sited global ethnography study of youth and education in nine countries and across six regions.Terence Chong is a sociologist and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, where he is coordinator of the Regional Social and Cultural Studies Programme and co-coordinator of the Thailand Studies Programme. His research interests include Christianity in Southeast Asia, heritage, cultural policies and politics in Singapore, and the sociology of religion and deviance. He has published in academic journals such as Journal of Contemporary Asia, Critical Asian Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies and Asian Studies Review. He is the author of The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance (2010), co-author of Different Under God: A Survey of Church-going Protestants in Singapore (2013), and editor of The AWARE Saga: Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore (2010).

• 1. Education in the global city: the manufacturing of education in Singapore 2. Vocational education in Singapore: meritocracy and hidden narratives 3. Language politics and global city 4. Mobility and desire: international students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore 5. Toward a cosmopolitan vision of English education in Singapore 6. Critical thinking and the anti-liberal state: the politics of pedagogic recontextualization in Singapore 7. Sex (education) in the city: Singapore’s sexuality education curriculum 8. ‘Inculcating’ creativity: culture as public pedagogy in Singapore 9. Doing ‘‘critical’’ in a postfeminist era: reviving critical consciousness through peer dialog