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Faculty Member, Faculty of Education and Social Work
University of Macau, Faculty of Education
Lecturer / Assistant Professor
Thesis Title: The Loss of the 'World-Soul'?: Education, Culture and the Making of the Singapore Developmental State, 1955 - 2004
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Dr. Ruth Sandwell
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About
My dissertation examined the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state, through is a historical study of education for citizenship in Singapore (1954-2004), where I explore the interconnections between changes in history, civics and social studies curricula, and the politics of nation-building.
The theoretical starting point of my thesis was the relationship between education and state formation. In the case of Singapore, state formation refers to the evolution of the developmental state, which derives its legitimacy from promoting and sustaining economic development. While there has been a plethora of scholarship on the developmental state and education, the literature tends to emphasize the role of education in promoting economic development. The cultural and ideological dimension of the role of education and the developmental state has been relatively neglected.
The thesis emphasised the importance of understanding the cultural and ideological dimension in the role and relationship between education and the developmental state. By generating and solving crises, the state enhances its legitimacy. The discourse of crises would provide us with an understanding of the culture of the developmental state, while education policies (in the form of changes in civics and history education) playing the ‘mediating’ role between crises and the developmental state.
