TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing high-performing education systems
T2 - understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong
AU - La Londe, Priya Goel
AU - Verger, Antoni
N1 - Funding Information:
Priya Goel La Londe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong in the Faculty of Education. A former teacher and school leader, she holds cross-disciplinary training in sociology, early childhood education, and education leadership and policy. Dr. La Londe's research examines the relationships between school reform policies and professional culture. Currently, she is investigating how performance accountability policies shape the identities and practices of teachers and school leaders in the contexts of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Dr. La Londe's research is supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the China Confucius Institute, and she has assisted on projects funded by the Spencer and William T. Grant Foundations.
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Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Despite the trendsetting of East Asian HPES, education policy commentary and literature on this region remains rather underdeveloped and predictable. In Comparing High-Performing Education Systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Dr Charlene Tan moves scholarship on East Asian HPES in a new, sorely needed direction. This review essay of Comparing High-Performing Education Systems describes the guiding conceptual framework of the book and summarizes the book, chapter-by-chapter. This review essay also comments on two striking issues–the explanatory power of Confucian habitus, and the intersectionality of performativity, Confucianism, and neoliberalism. The aim in this review essay is to both celebrate the boldness of Comparing High Performing Systems and offer questions to further enrich the employment of Confucianism as a conceptual and analytical tool to examine education policies, processes, and outcomes in East Asian systems.
AB - Despite the trendsetting of East Asian HPES, education policy commentary and literature on this region remains rather underdeveloped and predictable. In Comparing High-Performing Education Systems: Understanding Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Dr Charlene Tan moves scholarship on East Asian HPES in a new, sorely needed direction. This review essay of Comparing High-Performing Education Systems describes the guiding conceptual framework of the book and summarizes the book, chapter-by-chapter. This review essay also comments on two striking issues–the explanatory power of Confucian habitus, and the intersectionality of performativity, Confucianism, and neoliberalism. The aim in this review essay is to both celebrate the boldness of Comparing High Performing Systems and offer questions to further enrich the employment of Confucianism as a conceptual and analytical tool to examine education policies, processes, and outcomes in East Asian systems.
KW - Accountability
KW - Confucian Heritage Cultures
KW - Education Reform
KW - High-performing education systems
KW - high-stakes testing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089034743&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01596306.2020.1803548
DO - 10.1080/01596306.2020.1803548
M3 - Artículo de revisión
AN - SCOPUS:85089034743
SN - 0159-6306
JO - Discourse
JF - Discourse
ER -
