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Lim, Leonel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
In undertaking a critical discourse analysis of the professed aims and objectives of one of the most influential curricula in the teaching of thinking, this article foregrounds issues of power and ideology latent in curricular discourses of rationality. Specifically, it documents the subtle but powerful ways in which political and class…
Descriptors: Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism, Power Structure
Heng, Tang T.; Lim, Leonel – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Diversity is a socially constructed idea where differences are assigned values that are in turn shaped by local socio-political exigencies and narratives. Interpretations of diversity in Anglo-Saxon contexts tend to revolve around identity markers, such as race, gender, (dis)abilities and nationalities. Looking beyond Anglo-Saxon contexts, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction
Lim, Leonel – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2012
This article undertakes a critique of the aims and objectives of "Thinking Skills", one of the most widely and internationally used curricula in the teaching of thinking, offered by the University of Cambridge International Examinations. By engaging in a critical discourse analysis of how political and class biases are (re-)produced in the forms…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Curriculum, Social Class, Social Bias
Lim, Leonel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
In concert with Singapore's ambitions of a global city well engineered to the human capital needs of the transnational knowledge economy, its schools in recent years have emphasized the teaching of critical thinking. Such efforts, however, are not without tensions and contradictions. Given that such a curricular ideal is underpinned by liberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Politics of Education, Global Approach