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

• Main Authors: Chin, Mingkang, En, Arn Yen, Humphries Priscilla Abelina, Tan, Huiying
• Other Authors: Banerjee, Indrajit
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1403
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...