Education in the Global City

<p><em>Education in the Global City</em> examines education in Singapore through the critical lens of ‘manufacturing’. The book brings together two disparate fields which inform each other education and the ‘global city’; and the book’s contributors analyse and critique the manufacturing of Singapore education and Singapore’s global city formation. The collection covers vocational education language policies Higher Education English education critical thinking sex education creativity and critical feminist scholarship.</p><p>Collectively the book pries open the ideology of the manufacturing education system and points out the tension between the nation and its ideologies and the ‘global city’ aspirations. It also asks how education contributes to and is shaped by the market realities of Singapore’s global city ambitions – which are at odds with the nationalistic local agenda and priorities of nation-building. </p><p>In interrupting and speaking against the prevailing (and narrow) manufacturing of education for a teleological end in spite of Singapore’s successful nation-building this book is an important contribution to critical education scholarship.This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.</i></p>