National Education as a ‘Civics’ Literacy in a Globalized World
The challenges facing education in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7750868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tainá Rossi (0000-0002-7848-7088, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Mary Ryan (0000-0001-8395-6953, Queensland University of Technology) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-174 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596300600676110 |
| OpenAlex | W2072094626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
In this paper we discuss the idea of national education in Singapore. National education, broadly speaking, is a civics programme which seeks to instil a sense of place, identity and history in young Singaporeans with a view to developing national pride and commitment. We set this discussion against the backdrop of globalization and the idea of wired communities and argue that any civics programme needs to be more than simply a nationalistic agenda. To do this we have framed national education in Singapore as a civics literacy informed by the idea of multiliteracies. In doing so, we suggest that the pedagogical work of such an approach can help to sustain the nation state of Singapore yet place the civics agenda on a global stage where national education might be seen more appropriately as global education
Citizenship · Citizenship education · Civics · Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Contemporary Nationalism
Global Culture/Individual Identity
Those Who Understand
Globalization debates
Singapore cinema
Capitalism and ethnicity
Locating Europe1
An introduction to the information age
Schooling the Mobile Generation
Social and Cultural Change
One World
The global animus
National identity and the idea of European unity
Knowledge and Teaching
Sites' of resistance
"Singapore Education in "New Times
Educating for an Inclusive Democracy
The Information Society Reader
Discourses of Identity in the Changing Spaces of Public Culture in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |