Authors: Yoshiko Nozaki, Allan Luke (Editor), Roger Openshaw
ISBN-13: 9780791463970, ISBN-10: 0791463974
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Struggles over Difference addresses education, schools, textbooks, and pedagogies in various countries of the AsiaPacific, offering critical curriculum studies and policy analyses of national and regional educational systems. These systems face challenges linked to new economic formations, cultural globalization, and emergent regional and international geopolitical instabilities and conflicts. Contributors offer insights on how official knowledge, text, discourse, and discipline should be shaped; who should shape it; through which institutional agencies it should be administered; and social and cultural practices through which this should occur. The book disrupts popular myths about education in this part of the world, including base suppositions about the "other": that Asian pedagogy is exclusively rote learning, that educational systems and governments here are faced with classical developing country issues, and that institutional and state formation in the region can be assessed on a North/West or left/right continuum. The essays not only map and reframe issues of difference for those who work in education in the AsiaPacific, but also illuminate critical issues of curriculum and policy for teachers, students, teacher educators, and researchers worldwide.
Author Biography: Yoshiko Nozaki is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Roger Openshaw has a Personal Chair in Education History at Massey University at Palmerston North in New Zealand. Allan Luke is Professor of Education at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Curriculum, ethics, metanarrative : teaching and learning beyond the nation | 11 |
Ch. 2 | "... Nothing objectionable or controversial" : the image of Maori ethnicity and "difference" in New Zealand social studies | 25 |
Ch. 3 | State formation, hegemony, and Chinese school curricula in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1945-1965 | 41 |
Ch. 4 | Official knowledge and hegemony : the politics of the textbook deregulation policy in Taiwan | 59 |
Ch. 5 | The English language textbooks, 1960-2000 : postwar industrial and global changes | 79 |
Ch. 6 | The construction of culture knowledge in Chinese language textbooks : a critical discourse analysis | 99 |
Ch. 7 | New ideologies of everyday life in South Korean language textbooks | 117 |
Ch. 8 | Environmental education and development in China | 131 |
Ch. 9 | School knowledge and classed and gendered subjectivities in South Korean commercial high schools | 147 |
Ch. 10 | Identity conversion, citizenship, and social studies : Asian-Australian perspectives on indigenous reconciliation and human rights | 163 |
Ch. 11 | Fastening and unfastening identities : negotiating identity in Hawai'i | 183 |
Ch. 12 | The question of identity and difference : the resident Korean education in Japan | 199 |
Ch. 13 | History, postmodern discourse, and the Japanese textbook controversy over "comfort women" | 217 |