Is It Time to Let Meritocracy Go?
Examining the Case of Singapore
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
Av Nadira Talib, Australia) Talib, Nadira (University of Queensland
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Despite meritocratic claims of equal opportunity, official statistics released by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, reveal that a large segment of the Malay population has sustained the lowest academic achievement from 1987 to 2011. This statistical representation raises the possibility of a politically induced, systemic inequality as a point of investigation.To investigate this seeming contradiction between the rhetoric and practice of equal educational opportunity, Nadira Talib analyses education policies by drawing on a synthesis of philosophical perspectives and critical discourse analysis as a way of making explicit how the historical constitution of the learner is linked to the legitimisation of inequitable education policies that favour corporatist practices. By making explicit how the underlying assumption of the policy ‘logic’ that increasing expenditure on ‘talents’ must necessarily involve the increasing welfare of everybody is both unsubstantiated and arbitrary, the book presents a moral political problem in demonstrating how education policies are unfounded and unsupported through the idea of meritocracy.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2022-04-29
- Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
- Vikt453 g
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieRoutledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
- Antal sidor222
- FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
- EAN9780367502874