The Strong State and Curriculum Reform : Assessing the Politics and Possibilities of Educational Change in Asia (Hardcover)

1.Acknowledgements

2.List of Contributors

3.Chapter 1: Introducing the Strong State and Curriculum Reform in Asia (Leonel Lim and Michael W. Apple)

Section One: Ideology and the Strong State: The Tensions and Limits of State Curricular Control

4. Chapter 2: Global City, Illiberal Ideology: Curriculum Control and the Politics of Pedagogy in Singapore (Leonel Lim)

5. Chapter 3: Strong State Politics of the National History Curriculum and Struggles for Knowledge, Ideology, and Power in South Korea (Mi Ok Kang)

6. Chapter 4: Unintended Hegemonic Effects: Institutional Incorporation of Chinese Schools in Postwar Hong Kong (Ting-Hong Wong)

Section Two: Praxis and Change: Teachers, Social Movements and Pedagogic Agents

7. Chapter 5: National Education in Hong Kong: Curriculum as a site of struggle between “One Country” and “Two Systems” (Sara G. Lam)

8. Chapter 6: Social Movements and Educational Change in China: The Case of Migrant Children Schools (Min Yu)

9. Chapter 7: The Struggles of Teachers Unions in South Korea and the Politics of Educational Change (Hee-Ryong Kang)

Section Three: Globalizing Hegemony: Resisting and Recontextualizing International Reforms

10. Chapter 8: Teach For/Future China and the Politics of Alternative Teacher Certification Programs in China (Christopher B. Crowley)

11. Chapter 9: The Politics of Neoliberal Loanwords in South Korean Cross-National Policy Borrowing (Youl-Kwan Sung)

12. Chapter 10: Provincializing and Globalizing Critical Studies of School Knowledge: Insights from the Japanese History Textbook Controversy over “Comfort Women” (Keita Takayama)

13. Chapter 11: Afterword (Michael W. Apple & Leonel Lim)