Constructing underachievement: The discursive life of Singapore in US federal education policy

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: DE ROOCK, Roberto Santiago, ESPENA, Darlene Machell
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• الموضوعات: Underachievement; PISA; Singapore education; US educational policies; discourse analysis; neoliberalism; Asian Studies; Education
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3287; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4543/viewcontent/deRoockEspena2018_Constructing_underachievement_av.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

This paper offers insights into the referencing of Singapore within the US Obama Administration educational discourse, underscoring the political-material-discursive nexus of international educational benchmarking. Using critical discourse analysis, we find that an objectified Singapore functions as...