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The Scripting of A National History
Singapore and Its Pasts
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- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Photographs
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Beginning of History
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PART I. Scripture
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PART II. Singapore's Chinese Dilemma
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5. Political Vanguard: PAP Leaders of the Chinese-Speaking Community
- Profiling the PAP Leaders
- Marching to the battle front
- Fighting for a Malayan vision
- Battles over merger and beyond
- Campaigning for a 'Malaysian Malaysia'
- Holding the fort: Discourse on 'East versus West'
- Extending the discourse to 'generational differences'
- Changing of the guards: Language of displacement
- Bridging the gap
- + 6. Language Fault Lines: The Wang Gungwu Report on Nanyang University
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7. Student Political Activism: Articulation, Contestation and Omission
- Highlights of student politics, 1950s-1980s
- Problematising the articulation of a binary world: Chinese vs. English-educated activists
- Contesting for a place in history books: Memories and archives
- Interrogating through allegory: Novels and theatres
- Winning over the post-1965 generation: Political apathy and the omission of history
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5. Political Vanguard: PAP Leaders of the Chinese-Speaking Community
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PART III. Con/Scripting Singapore's National Heroes
- + 8. Toying with Pandora's Box: The Scripting of Singapore's National Heroes
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9. Imagining a Big Singapore: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
- Sun eclipsed: The Villa in the orbit of China's politics
- Land of the rising Sun: Reorienting history
- Singapore's essential Sun: Reaching high noon with China as the mega-market
- Sun's imaginative sons: Opening Windows 2000
- Singapore's Sun shrine: Creative replicas on display
- Sun screened: Alternative discourse from the theatre
- 'Take in all the sunlight and love the wind and rain'
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10. Conscripting Chinese Diasporic Culture into National Identity: Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens
- From colony to nation-state: The importance of being 'Chinese'
- The Villa that Aw built: The tiger and his habitat
- The Villa post-Aw Boon Haw: The loss of aura
- Cultures plebeian and 'imperial': In search of Chinese nativity
- Enter (and exit) the dragon: Death of a schizophrenic Disney theme park
- Defenders and detractors: A debate on culture and politics
- Haw Par Villa reloaded: Redefining Singapore's national identity
- Conclusion: No End to History
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Hong Kong is a fascinating place for the study of curriculum. Its schooling system is influenced by the legacies of a Chinese tradition and British colonialism and was developed at a time when, around the world, that state was taking more responsibility for the education of young people and educational policies were increasingly influenced by the impact of globalization. To this we can add the complexities of Hong Kong as a society—one that has witnessed major political and economic changes over the past 150 years or so, and particularly since the late 1970s. The dynamics produce an intricate interplay of innovation and conservatism, globalization and localization, liberalism and authoritarianism, devolution and centralization, and many other tensions.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to curriculum as a field of study in a way which highlights its inherent dilemmas and complexities by illustrating the diverse ways in which a curriculum can be developed and analyzed. It also presents a specific analysis of the Hong Kong school curriculum and highlights the ways in which the curriculum both reflects and changes in response to broader socio-political shifts.
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Publication year : 2009
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