Japanese Schooling and Identity Investment Overseas: Exploring the Cultural Politics of "Japaneseness" in Singapore [1 ed.] 9781000193022

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Japanese culture and overseas schooling: critiquing academic miscreance and pretentions to objectivity and generalizability
Giving due attention to matters of accountability, contextual and historical importance
Drawing (on) lessons from the response as backgrounding for subsequent discussion on criticality
a logically storied concatenation toward praxis
Anatomizing
generalizability’: miscreance and mischief through the management and subversion of meaning
Finding resonance and support in humanizing motifs
Chapter content
References
2. The Japanese in Japan (and overseas)
veracity and actuality within a Japanese ethos
as key cultural concepts to understanding Japaneseness
and
Internationalization, dealings with the outside and its detractors
and English language learning in Japan
The culpability of the high-hand of history and education in
perpetuation
Internally constructed meanings, autopoietic aspects and explanations of
imaginaries and effects on the imagination and practice
Meanings held in abeyance as a frustration as well as a door of hope
References
3. Singapore: colonization, independence and industrialization
The founding of modern Singapore
Independence from British rule and warming of relations with Japan
Japan’s contribution to Singapore’s postwar economic growth
Growth in volume and scope of Japanese investment
Learn from Japan’ drive and Singapore’s admiration for the
The
Japanese Model’
The signing of Singapore’s Free Trade Agreement with Japan
Singapore’s education system: technology, competitiveness and meritocracy
Singapore’s interest and involvement in international education
International schools in Singapore
Concluding remarks
References
4. Singapore’s Japanese presence: businesses, institutions and symbolisms
Moving into the South’
Understanding the history and politics of Japan’s
The proliferation of Japanese businesses in Singapore
The Japanese business community in Singapore
Foreshadowing other particularities: the schooling of Japanese children
References
5. Japanese schooling in Singapore: institutions, ideologies and identity investments
Institution A (IA): a social body for Japanese residents
Institution B (IB): a Japanese
international’ elementary school
Institution C (IC): a registered cooperative society
Institution D (ID): a supplementary weekend language school
Storytelling
Deconstructing the workings of ideology: a critical analysis of ideological enactments involving Institutions A to D
Ritual and ceremony versus day-to-day reality
The structuring of work and work-related structures
Bus routes as inventions of borders and as operations over (on) space and place
Preparing students for the homeland: the question of (in)tolerance of diversity
IA, IB, IC and ID: producing subjective identities of privilege and exclusivism
References
6. Japanese engagements with English overseas as a cultural politics of control
Explanation of the idiomatically and ideologically short leash
The teaching and learning of English in, IB, the elementary school concerned
Textbooks, cultural content and the workings of ideology
Commentary on the teaching and learning of English in IB
to
as a way of restoring voice, hope and dignity
Moving from
References
7. Interrogating ‘Singapore-as-technology’ in the reproduction of Japaneseness
A nurturing and naturalizing of elitism and exclusivity through schooling
Schooling as a moral, ideological, identity-laden and identity-charged project
Harnessing Singaporean technologies and Singapore-as-technology towards reinforcing Japaneseness
English language education
Observations relating to truly liberating pedagogies beyond regulated or hackneyed forms of didacticism
Addressing my superaddressee
References
Index