Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore.

摘要

Kevin Blackburn is an associate professor of History in Singapore's National Institute of Education, the country's principal institution for training its teachers. Having taught in Singapore since 1993, he is clearly familiar with the country's internationally acclaimed education system. This accessibly-written book is useful for readers looking to understand the successive Singapore governments' development and instrumentalization of technical and vocational education to serve economic goals, as well as the anxieties, aspirations and dilemmas that influenced this process. His new book shows that there has been a growing "'education-economy' nexus" in Singapore since colonial times, in which economic considerations and educational policies have become intertwined. The interplay between the political and economic calculations of the respective Singapore governments, the socioeconomic aspirations and anxieties of local communities, and the changing structure of Singapore's economy have driven the development of technical and vocational education.