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Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore book cover

1st Edition

Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore

By Kevin Blackburn Copyright 2017
122 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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Singapore under the ruling People’s Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation-building agenda. However, contrary to accepted assumptions, the use of education by the state to promote economic growth did not begin with the coming to power of the People’s Action Party in 1959. In Singapore,... Read more

List of tables 
    
Introduction
 
1.The ‘Education-Economy’ Nexus and Colonial Singapore (1819-1900)

2.Vocational and Technical Education and the Colonial Administration (1901-1941)

3.Decolonization, Education and the Singapore Economy (1942-1959)

4.Using Education to Create an Industrial Workforce (1959-1990s)

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Kevin Blackburn is Associate Professor in History at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has taught in Singapore since 1993, when he left the History Department of the University of Queensland to take up his present teaching position. He has co-authored with Karl Hack Did Singapore Have to Fall? (2004) and War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012).

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