Critical Studies of Education in Asia : Knowledge, Power and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms (Hardcover)

Introduction ? The politics of curriculum reforms in Asia: Inter-referencing discourses of power, culture and knowledge Leonel Lim and Michael W. Apple

1. Subterfuge hegemony: The simmering politics of the shelved Hong Kong moral and national education debates in the media Aaron Koh

2. Educators as transformative intellectuals: Taiwanese teacher activism during the national curriculum controversy Cheng-Yu Hung

3. Culture, pedagogy and equity in a meritocratic education system: Teachers’ work and the politics of culture in Singapore Leonel Lim and Michael Tan

4. Neoliberal global assemblages: The emergence of "public" international high-school curriculum programs in China Shuning Liu

5. How to mess with PISA: Learning from Japanese kokugo curriculum experts Keita Takayama

6. Politics and the practice of school change: The Hyukshin School movement in South Korea Youl-Kwan Sung and Yoonmi Lee

Afterword: On new critical East Asian educational studies Allan Luke