Parental responses to education reform in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong

Parental responses to education reform in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong

• Tan, Charlene Nanyang Technological University

Asia Pacific Education Review, 20(1), 91-99, 2019

Springer

2019

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RG Education Reforms
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Education Reform Habitus

• Singapore
• Shanghai
• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This article analyses and compares the responses of parents to education policy initiatives in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The education reform in three localities converges on changing an exam-centric culture and equipping students to thrive in a globalised world. Through a discussion of three representative policy initiativesDirect School Admission in Singapore, extended and inquiry/research curricula in Shanghai and Liberal Studies in Hong Kongthis article contends that the parents variously make sense of, negotiate, support and circumvent the policy initiatives. Their strategies, it is argued, are grounded in and shaped by their shared habitus, manifesting the four processes identified by Zhao, Selman and Luke (Bourdieu and Chinese education: Inequality, competition, and change, Routledge, Oxon, 2018) for understanding the formation of habitus. A major implication arising from the study is the usefulness of the concept of habitus in illuminating the educational expectations and proposed actions of parents when confronted with educational changes.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 15981037

• 10.1007/s12564-018-9571-4

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/a370d690

2020-08-26