Analysing Meritocratic (In)equality in Singapore: Ideology, Curriculum and Reproduction

Autor/in	Lim, Leonel
Titel	Analysing Meritocratic (In)equality in Singapore: Ideology, Curriculum and Reproduction
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 57 (2016) 2, S.160-174 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2015.1055777
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Equal Education; Social Systems; Educational Practices; Ideology; Curriculum; Curriculum Development; Privatization; Private Schools; Public Schools; Comparative Analysis; Power Structure; Social Status; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Knowledge Economy; Advantaged; Disadvantaged; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungspraxis; Ideologie; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Entwicklung; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Sozialer Status; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Singapur
Abstract	In this article I first discuss how in Singapore the concept of meritocracy captures both elitist and egalitarian aspirations, and the ways in which its education policies have for a long time vacillated between these conflicting dimensions. I then argue that critical studies of meritocracy need to go beyond an understanding of the term as an inherently unstable concept instantiated problematically in policy and practice. Rather, as I develop the argument further, the dynamics of meritocracy needs to be appreciated as an ideology that is negotiated by dominant social groups as these seek to legitimize particular distributions of social resources. Such dominant ideologies, however, are not only produced in the education system; they are also "reproduced" through it, often in far more complex ways. To see how these ideologies and their tensions animate the very mechanism that sits at the centre of the reproduction of (in)equality, viz. the curriculum, the rest of the article provides an account of how one particular subject area is differently taught in an elite and a mainstream school. (As Provided).
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