Leonel Lim

Leonel Lim is Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He was a former recipient of an overseas graduate scholarship sponsored by the Singapore Government, under which he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses broadly on curriculum theory and the politics of education, with specific interests in the relations between ideology and curriculum, state power, elite schooling and the sociology of curriculum. In 2014 he was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of curriculum studies.

Some of his research has been published in Journal of Curriculum Studies, Cambridge Journal of Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Curriculum Inquiry, and Critical Studies in Education. Other recent publications include Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore: State Ideology and the Politics of Pedagogic Recontextualization (Routledge, 2015) and a forthcoming edited volume (with Michael W. Apple) titled the Strong State and Curriculum Reform: Assessing the Possibilities and Politics of Educational Change in Asia (Routledge).

He currently serves as Associate Editor for Critical Studies in Education and Pedagogies: An International Journal.

Leonel Lim is Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He was a former recipient of an overseas graduate scholarship sponsored by the Singapore Government, under which he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses broadly on curriculum theory and the politics of education, with specific interests in the relations between ideology and curriculum, state power, elite schooling and the sociology of curriculum. In 2014 he was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of curriculum studies.

Some of his research has been published in Journal of Curriculum Studies, Cambridge Journal of Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Curriculum Inquiry, and Critical Studies in Education. Other recent publications include Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore: State Ideology and the Politics of Pedagogic Recontextualization (Routledge, 2015) and a forthcoming edited volume (with Michael W. Apple) titled the Strong State and Curriculum Reform: Assessing the Possibilities and Politics of Educational Change in Asia (Routledge).

He currently serves as Associate Editor for Critical Studies in Education and Pedagogies: An International Journal.

Leonel Lim is Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He was a former recipient of an overseas graduate scholarship sponsored by the Singapore Government, under which he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses broadly on curriculum theory and the politics of education, with specific interests in the relations between ideology and curriculum, state power, elite schooling and the sociology of curriculum. In 2014 he was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award in the field of curriculum studies.

Some of his research has been published in Journal of Curriculum Studies, Cambridge Journal of Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Curriculum Inquiry, and Critical Studies in Education. Other recent publications include Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore: State Ideology and the Politics of Pedagogic Recontextualization (Routledge, 2015) and a forthcoming edited volume (with Michael W. Apple) titled the Strong State and Curriculum Reform: Assessing the Possibilities and Politics of Educational Change in Asia (Routledge).

He currently serves as Associate Editor for Critical Studies in Education and Pedagogies: An International Journal.