Youth temporalities and the cost of Singapore's educational success

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2932476
AutoresYen Yen Joyceln Woo (Long Island University, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume29
Fascículo2
Páginas159-178
Data de publicação2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300801966781
OpenAlexW1990463829
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas24

This article presents a different portrait of Singapore's educational success, using data collected from a qualitative in-depth interview study of a group of Singaporean youths, showing the cost of its education policies in terms of youth subjectivities. How the participants categorise their temporalities, that is, their lived experiences of time, shows how a modernistic temporality geared towards credentialist and materialist goals is regarded as more legitimate than temporalities such as creative becomings, engagement or coevalness. Juxtaposing the discourse of legitimate/illegitimate temporalities against the discourse of education reform, this article defamiliarises the ways in which temporalities are valorised. This article also highlights how, by promoting narrow forms of ‘love’ for the country, and ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ thinking, educational reform can manage subjectivities to accept, rather than contest, existing personal, national, and global realities

Aesthetics · Art · CONTEST · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia