@inbook{3d2ebd9ca4c648308fcd216dd12d3f1a,
title = "Introduction: Dreams, Culture, Politics of Memory, and Power in Education",
abstract = "All educational concepts, developments, and issues have a home and belong to a context, which is the starting assertion of this book. This chapter will outline some theoretical parameters of a critical approach to understand and prescribe the politics of memory and power that are dealt with politically and educationally. This chapter will also present the notion of memory and cultural power that take as their starting point the social and historical particularities in the contemporary world. The study{\textquoteright}s aim was to examine the authorities and their official agencies as seen through the lens of the dreams and cultural politics used in the institution of education as a focal point of nation-building and social transformation.",
keywords = "Collective memory, Cultural politics of dreams, National education, National identity, Power in education, Power of culture, Soft power",
author = "Ho, {Wai Chung}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-10-7533-9_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811075322",
series = "Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education",
publisher = "Springer Singapore",
pages = "1--24",
editor = "Wai-Chung Ho",
booktitle = "Culture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China",
address = "Singapore",
edition = "1st",
}