| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) |
| Series |
Global childhoods in the Asia-Pacific ; volume 1 |
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Global childhoods in the Asia-Pacific ; volume 1
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: The Global Childhoods Project: Learning and Everyday Life in Three Global Cities -- Chapter 2 : Out and About in Global Cities -- Chapter 3: Exploring the Scholarly Habitus in Childrens Lifeworlds: High-Stakes Testing and Educational Capital -- Chapter 4: Picturing Policy: Visual Representations of Curriculum Policy in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore -- Chapter 5: Everyday Learning Looks Like this: Classroom Ethnographies in Three Global Cities -- Chapter 6: Everyday Out-of-School Lifeworlds Look Like this: Childrens Activities in Three Global Cities -- Chapter 7: Picturing Educational and Future Success -- Chapter 8: Rethinking Global Childhoods: Learning and Everyday Life in Three Global Cities |
| Summary |
This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of childrens everyday experiences of growing up and going to school in the context of the three global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. It takes the premise that childrens learning and orientations to educational success are shaped by everyday cultural practices at home and at school, by policy contexts that both produce and respond to educational and cultural norms, and by individual and familial desires and aspirations. Drawing on research conducted with primary school-aged children in Year 4, the book considers how day-to-day routines such as going to school, engaging in extra-curricular activities outside of school, and spending time at home with family intersect with the broader milieus of education policy ideals in a changing and interconnected world. Through a combination of visual methodologies, surveys, ethnographic observations in schools, classrooms and cityscapes, re-enactments of everyday activities with children at home, and sociological education policy analysis, this book shows both the richness of childrens everyday lives and learning in global cities, as well as exploring questions that pose challenges to educational and social norms |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
School children -- Social conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
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School children -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social conditions
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School children -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
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School children -- Singapore -- Social conditions
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School children -- Social conditions
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China -- Hong Kong
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Singapore
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Victoria -- Melbourne
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lee, I-Fang, editor
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Saltmarsh, Sue, 1963- editor
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Yelland, Nicola, 1952- editor
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| ISBN |
9819904862 |
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9789819904860 |
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