Aaron Koh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Koh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Koh |
| SIGNATURE | KOH A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mobile Nationalism
This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a 'home nation' despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that …
New Sociologies of Elite Schooling
The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices - moving the 'field' forward empirically and theoretically
The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices–moving the ‘field’ forward empirically and theoretically
Class Choreographies
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excel
Sociological silhouettes of elite schooling
The elite school. What is it? Clearly this is not an un-subjective, universal or timeless category. Elite schools rise and fall, new types emerge and make status claims, older types stand firm or f
Malnutrition in older adults on financial assistance in an urban Asian country
Objective The objectives of the present study were to assess the nutritional status, identify factors for malnutrition risk and evaluate barriers to adequate nutrition among recipients of the Public Assistance (PA) scheme for socio-economically disadvantaged Singaporeans. Design Using a cross-sectional study design, we assessed PA recipients’ malnutrition risk using the DETERMINE Nutritional Health checklist and the full Mini-Nutritional Assessme…
The "magic" of tutorial centres in Hong Kong
Education in the global city
It is purely a matter of (timely) coincidence that this special issue is published at the cusp of Singapore's golden jubilee. Fifty years of nation-building may not be considered long in historical
The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
Elite schools are banks of emotion where the individuals and social classes that they serve deposit their desires and gain social dividends. They are also registers of social recognition and serve as spaces of collective capacity for their privileged clients. Elite schools have long been sites for the exercise of a form of affective agency by the wealthy and socially powerful. Many such people and groups have heavy emotional investments in the sc…
The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
The elite school as 'cognitive machine' and 'social paradise
In this article we draw on Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power and his associated conceptual apparatus to examine Singapore as a 'field of power' and the formation of Singapore's 'state nobility' through an elite secondary school. We ask how well Bourdieu's conceptual apparatus travels, given Singapore's geo-political history and its strategic positioning with regard to what it calls its 'global hinterland'. We work…
In-between' Asia and Australia
This article mobilizes story-telling to narrate my lived experience of teaching English as a minority academic in one Australian university. Positioning myself as living ‘in-between’ two cultures and as an ‘Other’, I tell my story of how I have been ‘racialized’ and ‘Othered’ because I do not look White, and my spoken English is distinctly accented; hence, my legitimacy of teaching English is held suspect. My story contributes to the theorizing o…
The visualization of education policy
The attention to the visualization of education policy is an area of study yet to be developed and explored. This paper extends the scholarship of ‘media‐ted education policy production’ by developing a visual methodology to analyse a visual education policy document that takes the form of a documentary titled Learning Journeys (2000), which documented an uptake of and for the ‘Thinking Schools, Learning Nation’ policy in Singapore schools after …
Living with Globalization Tactically
Singaporeans need not be told what globalization means. The popular media, as well as the political leaders of Singapore, have generated a local-babble of the derivative meanings of globalization. That globaliza- tion means competitiveness, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and foreign talent, has become deeply enculturated and embedded in the Singaporean consciousness. This paper will show that the local-babble on globalization in Singap…
Deparochializing Education
Research on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has hitherto attracted scholarly attention and debate by both regional and international scholars working in area studies, such as international relations and Asia-Pacific/Southeast Asia studies. Confined to area studies, scholarly research on ASEAN is limiting because the parameters of research are invariably locked into issues related to economics, politics, security, and trade deve…
"Singapore Education in "New Times
This paper critically examines recent education reform in Singapore launched under the rhetoric of “Thinking Schools, Learning Nation” (TSLN). I will make explicit the context and the premises underlying the new state‐initiated TSLN education reform. I argue that the re‐alignment of education change is a response to the trajectories of (global) economic conditions, concomitantly framed by (local) sociopolitical and cultural–ideological needs. Nex…
Global Flows of Foreign Talent
This paper draws on Appadurai's (1996) concept of ethnoscapes — the global flow of people or what has become increasingly popularized as the global flow of talent. Singapore has initiated a foreign talent policy to compete for a global pool of talent to make up for its shortfall of indigenous work-force. The rationale for recruiting foreign talent is informed by a nationalist competitive ideology to sustain Singapore in the new knowledge-based ec…
The elite school as 'cognitive machine' and 'social paradise
In this article we draw on Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power and his associated conceptual apparatus to examine Singapore as a 'field of power' and the formation of Singapore's 'state nobility' through an elite secondary school. We ask how well Bourdieu's conceptual apparatus travels, given Singapore's geo-political history and its strategic positioning with regard to what it calls its 'global hinterland'. We work…
Global Flows of Foreign Talent
This paper draws on Appadurai's (1996) concept of ethnoscapes — the global flow of people or what has become increasingly popularized as the global flow of talent. Singapore has initiated a foreign talent policy to compete for a global pool of talent to make up for its shortfall of indigenous work-force. The rationale for recruiting foreign talent is informed by a nationalist competitive ideology to sustain Singapore in the new knowledge-based ec…
Sociological silhouettes of elite schooling
The elite school. What is it? Clearly this is not an un-subjective, universal or timeless category. Elite schools rise and fall, new types emerge and make status claims, older types stand firm or f
Living with Globalization Tactically
Singaporeans need not be told what globalization means. The popular media, as well as the political leaders of Singapore, have generated a local-babble of the derivative meanings of globalization. That globaliza- tion means competitiveness, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and foreign talent, has become deeply enculturated and embedded in the Singaporean consciousness. This paper will show that the local-babble on globalization in Singap…
The "magic" of tutorial centres in Hong Kong
The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices - moving the 'field' forward empirically and theoretically
The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices–moving the ‘field’ forward empirically and theoretically
"Singapore Education in "New Times
This paper critically examines recent education reform in Singapore launched under the rhetoric of “Thinking Schools, Learning Nation” (TSLN). I will make explicit the context and the premises underlying the new state‐initiated TSLN education reform. I argue that the re‐alignment of education change is a response to the trajectories of (global) economic conditions, concomitantly framed by (local) sociopolitical and cultural–ideological needs. Nex…
Education in the global city
It is purely a matter of (timely) coincidence that this special issue is published at the cusp of Singapore's golden jubilee. Fifty years of nation-building may not be considered long in historical
Mobile Nationalism
This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a 'home nation' despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that …
The visualization of education policy
The attention to the visualization of education policy is an area of study yet to be developed and explored. This paper extends the scholarship of ‘media‐ted education policy production’ by developing a visual methodology to analyse a visual education policy document that takes the form of a documentary titled Learning Journeys (2000), which documented an uptake of and for the ‘Thinking Schools, Learning Nation’ policy in Singapore schools after …
In-between' Asia and Australia
This article mobilizes story-telling to narrate my lived experience of teaching English as a minority academic in one Australian university. Positioning myself as living ‘in-between’ two cultures and as an ‘Other’, I tell my story of how I have been ‘racialized’ and ‘Othered’ because I do not look White, and my spoken English is distinctly accented; hence, my legitimacy of teaching English is held suspect. My story contributes to the theorizing o…
Deparochializing Education
Research on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has hitherto attracted scholarly attention and debate by both regional and international scholars working in area studies, such as international relations and Asia-Pacific/Southeast Asia studies. Confined to area studies, scholarly research on ASEAN is limiting because the parameters of research are invariably locked into issues related to economics, politics, security, and trade deve…
Global Flows of Foreign Talent
This paper draws on Appadurai's (1996) concept of ethnoscapes — the global flow of people or what has become increasingly popularized as the global flow of talent. Singapore has initiated a foreign talent policy to compete for a global pool of talent to make up for its shortfall of indigenous work-force. The rationale for recruiting foreign talent is informed by a nationalist competitive ideology to sustain Singapore in the new knowledge-based ec…
"Singapore Education in "New Times
This paper critically examines recent education reform in Singapore launched under the rhetoric of “Thinking Schools, Learning Nation” (TSLN). I will make explicit the context and the premises underlying the new state‐initiated TSLN education reform. I argue that the re‐alignment of education change is a response to the trajectories of (global) economic conditions, concomitantly framed by (local) sociopolitical and cultural–ideological needs. Nex…
Living with Globalization Tactically
Singaporeans need not be told what globalization means. The popular media, as well as the political leaders of Singapore, have generated a local-babble of the derivative meanings of globalization. That globaliza- tion means competitiveness, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and foreign talent, has become deeply enculturated and embedded in the Singaporean consciousness. This paper will show that the local-babble on globalization in Singap…
Deparochializing Education
Research on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has hitherto attracted scholarly attention and debate by both regional and international scholars working in area studies, such as international relations and Asia-Pacific/Southeast Asia studies. Confined to area studies, scholarly research on ASEAN is limiting because the parameters of research are invariably locked into issues related to economics, politics, security, and trade deve…
The visualization of education policy
The attention to the visualization of education policy is an area of study yet to be developed and explored. This paper extends the scholarship of ‘media‐ted education policy production’ by developing a visual methodology to analyse a visual education policy document that takes the form of a documentary titled Learning Journeys (2000), which documented an uptake of and for the ‘Thinking Schools, Learning Nation’ policy in Singapore schools after …
In-between' Asia and Australia
This article mobilizes story-telling to narrate my lived experience of teaching English as a minority academic in one Australian university. Positioning myself as living ‘in-between’ two cultures and as an ‘Other’, I tell my story of how I have been ‘racialized’ and ‘Othered’ because I do not look White, and my spoken English is distinctly accented; hence, my legitimacy of teaching English is held suspect. My story contributes to the theorizing o…
The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
Elite schools are banks of emotion where the individuals and social classes that they serve deposit their desires and gain social dividends. They are also registers of social recognition and serve as spaces of collective capacity for their privileged clients. Elite schools have long been sites for the exercise of a form of affective agency by the wealthy and socially powerful. Many such people and groups have heavy emotional investments in the sc…
The Libidinal Economy of the Globalising Elite School Market
The elite school as 'cognitive machine' and 'social paradise
In this article we draw on Bourdieu's The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power and his associated conceptual apparatus to examine Singapore as a 'field of power' and the formation of Singapore's 'state nobility' through an elite secondary school. We ask how well Bourdieu's conceptual apparatus travels, given Singapore's geo-political history and its strategic positioning with regard to what it calls its 'global hinterland'. We work…
Malnutrition in older adults on financial assistance in an urban Asian country
Objective The objectives of the present study were to assess the nutritional status, identify factors for malnutrition risk and evaluate barriers to adequate nutrition among recipients of the Public Assistance (PA) scheme for socio-economically disadvantaged Singaporeans. Design Using a cross-sectional study design, we assessed PA recipients’ malnutrition risk using the DETERMINE Nutritional Health checklist and the full Mini-Nutritional Assessme…
The "magic" of tutorial centres in Hong Kong
Education in the global city
It is purely a matter of (timely) coincidence that this special issue is published at the cusp of Singapore's golden jubilee. Fifty years of nation-building may not be considered long in historical
Sociological silhouettes of elite schooling
The elite school. What is it? Clearly this is not an un-subjective, universal or timeless category. Elite schools rise and fall, new types emerge and make status claims, older types stand firm or f
Class Choreographies
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excel
New Sociologies of Elite Schooling
The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices - moving the 'field' forward empirically and theoretically
The plurality of the Global Middle Class(es) and their school choices–moving the ‘field’ forward empirically and theoretically
Mobile Nationalism
This article examines whether and how globally mobile middle-class professional families engage in practices of nationalism through forging connections with a 'home nation' despite continuous relocations for work. Drawing on the concept of boundary objects which are used to facilitate frequent boundary crossings, we identify the promotion of language acquisition and cultural or national rituals and traditions as two central family practices that …
Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Elite (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)