{"id":237,"date":"2022-01-19T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/?p=237"},"modified":"2022-01-21T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T09:05:08","slug":"families-the-state-and-educational-inequality-in-the-singapore-city-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/2022\/01\/19\/families-the-state-and-educational-inequality-in-the-singapore-city-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Families, the State and Educational Inequality in the Singapore City-State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paper delivered at the Development in Education in Asia Research Seminars 2022, Centre for Research in Education in Asia, University of Bath - 19th January 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Charleen Chiong, Senior Research Officer at the Department of Education &amp; Training, Victor State, Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Families, the State and Educational Inequality in the Singapore City-State - Dr Charleen Chiong\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOI6UN3K7cY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Singapore is a \u2018strong\u2019 developmental state that exercises ideological leadership over economy and society, and offers widespread, highly subsidised provision of public services, including education. Paradoxically, however, while such logics invite dependence on the \u2018strong\u2019 state, at the heart of Singaporean public policy is the anti-welfarist, <em>self-responsibilising,<\/em> meritocratic ethos.<\/p>\n<p>In her new book, Families, the State and Educational Inequality in the Singapore City-State, Charleen Chiong explores how socio-economically disadvantaged families negotiate relations of dependency and responsibility with the state and schools, in seeking future success. Through analysing in-depth interviews, this talk demonstrates how families\u2019 perspectives can provide crucial insight in understanding how policy is \u2018lived\u2019 and experienced, and its effects on families\u2019 lives. In view of widening socio-economic and educational inequalities in Singapore, implications for equity and the state-citizen compact are discussed \u2013 implications that may be relevant to contexts beyond Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper delivered at the Development in Education in Asia Research Seminars 2022, Centre for Research in Education in Asia, University of Bath - 19th January 2022 Dr Charleen Chiong, Senior Research Officer at the Department of Education &amp; Training, Victor...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internationalisation-and-globalisation-of-education","category-language-educational-practices"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}