Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vickers, Edward; Kumar, Krishna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where efforts to modernize - spurred on by the spectre of foreign domination - have often been accompanied by determined attempts to stamp national variants of modernity with the brand of local authenticity: 'Asian values', 'Chinese characteristics', a Japanese cultural 'essence' and so forth. Highlighting (or exaggerating) associations between the more unsettling consequences of modernization and alien influence has thus formed part of a strategy whereby elites in many Asian societies have sought to construct new forms of legitimacy for old patterns of dominance over the masses. The apparatus of modern systems of mass education, often inherited from colonial rulers, has been just one instrument in such campaigns of state legitimation.

This book presents analyses of a range of contemporary projects of citizenship formation across Asia in order to identify those issues and concerns most central to Asian debates over the construction of modern identities. Its main focus is on schooling, but also examines other vehicles for citizenship-formation, such as museums and the internet; the role of religion (in particular Islam) in debates over citizenship and identity in certain Asian societies; and the relationship between state-centred identity discourses and the experience of increasingly 'globalized' elites.

With chapters from an international team of contributors, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, Asian education, comparative education and citizenship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135007263
• Artikelnr.: 42008696

Autorenporträt

Edward Vickers is Associate Professor of Comparative Education at Kyushu University, Japan. Krishna Kumar is Professor at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: Education for modern citizenship in Asia -
historical perspectives 2. Education and Modernity in Rural India 3. A
Civilizing Mission with Chinese characteristics? Education, colonialism and
Chinese state formation in comparative perspective Part II: Schooling,
curriculum and textbooks in state projects of citizenship formation 4.
Going Global? National versus post-national citizenship education in
contemporary Chinese and Japanese social studies curricula 5. Making of a
Reflective Citizen: India's new textbooks for Social and Political Life 6.
Education, National Identity and State Formation in the Modern Philippines
Part III: Religion, ethnicity and the construction of modern citizenship in
the Islamic societies of Western and Central Asia 7. Constructing Modern
Turkish citizens: from Ottoman times to the 21st century 8. The making of
the Pakistani Citizen: Civic Education and State Nationalism in Pakistan
Part IV: Beyond the school gates - extra-curricular vehicles for
citizenship formation 9. Constructing Civic Identity in Shanghai's Museums:
heritage, ideology and local distinctiveness 10. Education for Active
Citizenship: youth organisations and alternative forms of citizenship
education in Hong Kong and Singapore Part V: Civic attitudes of young
Asians 11. Citizenship, Participation and Elite Students in Singapore 12.
Education, Youth and Civic Attitudes in Post-Socialist Mongolia 13.
Identifying with a 'Rising China': overseas Chinese student nationalism