Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation: the case of Singapore’s universities

Loke, Hoe Yeong; Chia, Yeow-Tong; Gopinathan, Saravanan

doi:10.1080/03075079.2017.1376874

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“…In contrast, Hong Kong and Singapore have shown greater interest in enterprising their higher education system, as part of the modern governance structure, than understanding, balancing with or reserving their traditions if any. According to Loke et al (2017), Singaporean universities have never drawn inspiration from Confucianism despite the significant proportion of ethnic Chinese in the national population. The cases of Hong Kong and Singapore reflect the claim that East Asian universities are largely transplants of the Anglo-American university model (Altbach et al, 2004;Yang, 2019).…”

Section: The Global Impact Of Academic Entrepreneurialism On Academic...mentioning

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Is Academic Entrepreneurialism a Universal Concept? New Ideas and Insights From Contextualisation Beyond East and West

Tang,

Zhang

2023

International Journal of Chinese Education

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This paper considers the conceptualisation of ‘academic entrepreneurialism’ and develops new ideas and insights by contextualising the concept. It critically reviews the conceptual literature of academic entrepreneurialism which is dominated by research and conceptualisation by the West and reflects its implications for understanding academic entrepreneurialism in China. After that, it answers the key question: Is academic entrepreneurialism a universal concept? By academic entrepreneurialism, it refers to the phenomenon that universities are willing to supply knowledge for capitalising new opportunities, managing risks and maximising revenues, reputation, or human capital in response to the demands for education, research and knowledge solutions by the knowledge society and economy, as well as developing new markets for their knowledge-based services and goods. This paper draws on global perspective and the case of Chinese higher education, and engages in conceptual discussions about the applied universality of academic entrepreneurialism and its limitations of making sense of cultural uniqueness in various contexts. We argue that academic entrepreneurialism is not a universal and all-encompassing template but the beginning of constitutive, continuous and complex transformation of institutional reasoning of different universities across the world. Not taking the culturalist presuppositions, new ideas from this paper may be helpful for reconsidering, redesigning and reorganising research, education and engagement of universities beyond East and West so as to foster their self-understanding in the entrepreneurial age and future-oriented development.

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Is Academic Entrepreneurialism a Universal Concept? New Ideas and Insights From Contextualisation Beyond East and West

Tang,

Zhang

2023

International Journal of Chinese Education

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“…Singapore has successfully transformed an export-oriented economy manufacturing electronics, petrochemicals and component and precision engineering, to an economy focused on services, innovation and research since 1991. (Loke, Chia, & Gopinathan, 2017) As a small city state with a few universities, Singapore was able to put policies in place at the national and the institutional levels between 1999-2009 without much opposition from institutions and segments which were left at a disadvantage.…”

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A Comparative Study of Higher Education Governance in Greater China

Tao

2020

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During 1980, many Western countries launched public administration reforms. These reform waves also blew over to many Asian countries. With the advent of globalization and the rise of knowledgebased society, education and innovation are regarded as the driving forces behind social and economic growth and development. To enhance the national capacity, education reforms have also become common agendas among nation states since the 1980s. This paper aims at critically reviewing and comparing majorpolicies and strategies of the higher education reform adopted by the respective government in Greater China, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan and Singapore. The key research questions are why these countries attempted to reform their higher education and if these countries achieve the desired results and comply with good governance. In this paper, four areas, "Rule of Law," "Transparency," "Effectiveness," and "Accountability" are evaluated to examine how these selected cases’ governance in higher education have been implemented in the past 30 years.

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“…This imaginary legitimated particular neoliberal education policies and practices on the state-level, which greatly affected universities in the city-state (Sidhu, 2005). Loke, Chia, and Gopinathan (2017) in their discussion of Singapore's developmental state eduscape highlight the hybridity of the global/local relation in the history of Singapore Universities and the move towards becoming a global city in the knowledge economy. In summary, discourses of globalization can restrict the social imaginary to the extent that, for example, becoming a "world-class university" seems to be the only option.…”

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“…However, an important challenge will be to abstain from creating new binaries and cultural hegemonies, such as "Confucian models" or "Asian values", which amalgamate the diversity of educational models, values, knowledges, and perspectives in universities in Asian countries into a unitary "Asian" discourse of higher education. Such an Asian higher education discourse could have similar subjugating and limiting effects as neoliberal globalization discourses (Loke et al, 2017).…”

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Global discourses and power/knowledge: theoretical reflections on futures of higher education during the rise of Asia

Geerlings

Lundberg

2018

Asia Pacific Journal of Education

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This paper re-reads a selection of critical interdisciplinary theories in an attempt to open a space in higher education for cross-cultural dialogue during the rise of Asia. Theories of globalization, deterritorialization, power/ knowledge and postcolonialism indicate that students and academics have the ability to re-imagine and influence globalization processes in higher education. The current power effects of global discourses restrict the imaginaries and territories of globalization-leading to specific enactments in ways that prioritize western understandings of higher education. The paper argues for the need to explore hegemonic discursive formations of globalization to uncover processes of "othering" and the subjugation of knowledges. In this regard, a postcolonial perspective can help by opening up scenarios for the future of higher education in the Asian Century. I often ask myself the question: am I Chinese or am I Western? Because in my heart I feel Chinese, but in my work [as an educational researcher] I have to be Western. (Yang, 2014) A key issue for academics working in universities in Asia is how they will position themselves in increasingly international higher education landscapes. In the last two decades, higher education has become a centrepiece of globalization: the sector is deregulated in most countries, and around the world universities are increasingly organized as businesses (Mok, 2011). On a global scale, a growing number of higher education institutes are competing to become a "world-class university" and to progress higher on the rungs of international university rankings (Sidhu, 2009, p. 126). In this context, Asian universities are progressively gaining international recognition and prestige as they climb the ranking ladders. Against this background, the prefatory quote above, from an educational scholar at a university in Hong Kong, stands out. He calls for the need to question the idea of "progress" of Asian universities. His words pay attention to the complexity of the notion of a "global education" from a cultural perspective. For academics in Asian countries embroiled in western discourses, the current higher education system may involve cultural masquerades due to an intrusion of "western" influences. The increasing international recognition of Asian universities is important for globalization; however, perhaps not at the risk of a cultural shift towards western academic models. The rise of Asia, and the concomitant rise of the universities, highlights the need to critically scrutinize the cultural effects of globalization of higher education in Asia-for global diversity.

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Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation: the case of Singapore’s universities

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Is Academic Entrepreneurialism a Universal Concept? New Ideas and Insights From Contextualisation Beyond East and West

Is Academic Entrepreneurialism a Universal Concept? New Ideas and Insights From Contextualisation Beyond East and West

A Comparative Study of Higher Education Governance in Greater China

Global discourses and power/knowledge: theoretical reflections on futures of higher education during the rise of Asia

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