State ideology & the local education system : processes & negotiations in Singapore classrooms

This paper seeks to elucidate the processes and mechanisms by which the state's ideologies are perpetuated through the local secondary education system. Using Strauss and Corbin's Grounded Theory, it examines the everyday strategies teachers and students undertaken in negotiation the syste...

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Main Authors: Chin, Mingkang, En, Arn Yen, Humphries Priscilla Abelina, Tan, Huiying
Other Authors: Banerjee, Indrajit
Format: Final Year Project
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1403
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
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Summary:This paper seeks to elucidate the processes and mechanisms by which the state's ideologies are perpetuated through the local secondary education system. Using Strauss and Corbin's Grounded Theory, it examines the everyday strategies teachers and students undertaken in negotiation the system in which they find themselves, and the results of these.