Comparing high-performing education systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong

Comparing high-performing education systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong

• La Londe, Priya Goel The University of Hong Kong
• Verger, Antoni Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, (0), - , 2020

Routledge

2020

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Education Reform High-performing Education Systems Accountability Confucian Heritage Cultures High-stakes Testing

• Singapore
• Shanghai
• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

Despite the trendsetting of East Asian HPES, education policy commentary and literature on this region remains rather underdeveloped and predictable. In Comparing High-Performing Education Systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Dr Charlene Tan moves scholarship on East Asian HPES in a new, sorely needed direction. This review essay of Comparing High-Performing Education Systems describes the guiding conceptual framework of the book and summarizes the book, chapter-by-chapter. This review essay also comments on two striking issues – the explanatory power of Confucian habitus, and the intersectionality of performativity, Confucianism, and neoliberalism. The aim in this review essay is to both celebrate the boldness of Comparing High Performing Systems and offer questions to further enrich the employment of Confucianism as a conceptual and analytical tool to examine education policies, processes, and outcomes in East Asian systems.
[Copyright of Discourse-Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is the property of Routledge.]

• English

Journal Articles

• 01596306

• 10.1080/01596306.2020.1803548

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/1929e462

2021-02-16