Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

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  • Author: Zongyi Deng
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9814451576
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents how these reforms have been translated into programs, school subjects and operational frameworks and then examines, in turn, how well these have been implemented in schools and classrooms across the country. Through this examination, the book reveals how the initiatives, together with their curricular translation and classroom enactment, reflect on the one hand global features and tendencies and, on the other, distinct national traditions, concerns and practices. It brings to light a set of issues, problems and challenges that not only concern policymakers, educators and reformers in Singapore but also those in other countries as well. Written by curriculum scholars, policy analysts, researchers and teacher educators, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum offers an up-to-date reference for postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in the areas of curriculum and instruction, comparative education, educational sociology, educational policy and leadership in Singapore, the Asia Pacific region and beyond. It also offers a vital contribution to the story of modern education around the globe: providing international students, scholars and researchers valuable insights into curriculum and curriculum reform for the 21st century.


Globalization and Marketization in Education

Globalization and Marketization in Education

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  • Author: Ka-Ho Mok
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781781956342
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 174

Mok (humanities and social sciences, City U. of Hong Kong) and Tan (education policy and management, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore) review the strategies their two governments have adopted to reform the education systems in response to the growing impact of globalization. They focus on financing, provision, and regulation. The two countries a.


Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization

Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization

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  • Author: John Chi-Kin Lee
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1136825231
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Much has been written about globalization and the challenge of preparing young people for the new world of work and life in times of complexity and continuous change. However, few works have examined how globalization has and will continue to shape education in the East. This volume discusses education within the context of globalization and examines what is occurring in schools and systems of education in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Singapore, and Australia. Closer examination of recent developments and current trends reveal the same turbulence and a range of common issues in areas such as assessment, curriculum, leadership, management of change, pedagogy, policy, professional capacity and technology. This volume demonstrates the commonalities and differences and offers tremendous insight into the way things are done in places where student achievement is high but there is also a sense of urgency in continuing an agenda of change.


Education in the Global City

Education in the Global City

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  • Author: Aaron Koh
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317294858
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

Education in the Global City examines education in Singapore through the critical lens of ‘manufacturing’. The book brings together two disparate fields which inform each other, education and the ‘global city’; and the book’s contributors analyse and critique the manufacturing of Singapore education and Singapore’s global city formation. The collection covers vocational education, language policies, Higher Education, English education, critical thinking, sex education, creativity, and critical feminist scholarship. Collectively, the book pries open the ideology of the manufacturing education system, and points out the tension between the nation and its ideologies, and the ‘global city’ aspirations. It also asks how education contributes to, and is shaped by, the market realities of Singapore’s global city ambitions – which are at odds with the nationalistic local agenda and priorities of nation-building. In interrupting and speaking against the prevailing (and narrow) manufacturing of education for a teleological end, in spite of Singapore’s successful nation-building, this book is an important contribution to critical education scholarship.This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.


Tactical Globalization

Tactical Globalization

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  • Author: Aaron Koh
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9783039105915
  • Category : Culture and globalization
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

This book is about a small city state's social experiment with globalization. It examines how Singapore conducts its globalization experiment through the state apparatus of schooling and education policy. The author argues that Singapore engages with globalization by anticipating the «problem space» of globalization with calculated actions and experimentation, termed «tactics» and «tactical globalization» in the book. Central to the book is an examination and analysis of the «Thinking Schools, Learning Nation» education policy and reform. While Tactical Globalization contributes to the sociology of globalization by foregrounding new narratives on globalization that are emerging, it also takes a contextual and innovative approach to education policy analysis, which includes a speech-turned-policy document and a nationally televised segment of a documentary called Learning Journeys.


Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State

Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State

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  • Author: Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000214141
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

The relationship between teacher education and internationalization is often regarded as one that has just begun, sparked by globalization and its knowledge economy. This book questions such an assumption by arguing that although contemporary demands on teacher education have intensified the need for internationalization, teacher education and internationalization have a deep and complex relationship, which is context dependent and has developed differently over time. This book urges its readers to question and rethink overly nationalistic approaches to teacher education. It shows how the internationalization of teacher education could be used as a strategic tool to support sustainable educational development and meet labor market demands for twenty-first century competencies. It puts the spotlight on the imperatives for internationalizing teacher education and its present forms, and considers this current phenomenon in the context of Singapore. This nation state has a history of internationalization, albeit with differing rationales, dimensions and strategies. Internationalization has been a key driver of the Singapore education system’s sustained growth, from its humble beginnings to its present state as one of the best performing education systems in the world. This book will be of great interest to policy makers, academics, researchers and graduate students in the fields of international and comparative education, teacher education, and South East Asian studies.


A Science Curriculum Perspective of Singapore's Globalisation

A Science Curriculum Perspective of Singapore's Globalisation

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  • Author: Apollos Induchoodan Pillai
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Curriculum change
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 222


World Class Learners

World Class Learners

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  • Author: Yong Zhao
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1452203989
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

In the new global economy, the jobs that exist now might not exist by the time today's students enter the workplace. To succeed in this ever-changing world, students need to be able to think like entrepreneurs: resourcefully, flexibly, creatively, and globally. Researcher and professor Yong Zhao unlocks the secrets to cultivating independent thinkers who are willing and able to think creatively and differently about creating jobs and contributing positively to the globalized society. World Class Learners presents concepts that teachers, administrators, and even parents can implement immediately, including how to Understand and harness the entrepreneurial spirit Foster student autonomy and leadership Encourage inventive learners with necessary resources Develop global partners and resources With the liberty to make meaningful decisions and explore nontraditional learning opportunities, today's students will develop into tomorrow's global entrepreneurs. Book jacket.


Diversifying Schools

Diversifying Schools

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  • Author: David Hung
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811660344
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations. It documents the change journey of Specialized Schools and Future Schools in Singapore with a view to understand the key tenets that enable school wide change and reform. The intents for change and reform are to anchor the education system to the basic foundations and principles of education and yet enable the system as a whole to be malleable to change and globalization. It shows how Singapore enables diversity within a structured environment through innovations in Specialized and Future Schools, and highlights the systemic rationale behind various efforts in Specialized and Future Schools and the kinds of adaptations schools have made to leverage structures and make adjustments for their contexts.


Language, Capital, Culture

Language, Capital, Culture

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9087901240
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 279

Singapore has been taken by many researchers as a fascinating living language policy and planning laboratory. Language and education policy in Singapore has been pivotal not only to the establishment and growth of schooling, but to the very project of nation building. Since their inception, ‘mother tongue’ policies have been established with two explicit goals. Firstly there is the development and training of human and intellectual capital for the expansion and networking of a Singaporean service and information economy. Secondly there is the maintenance of cultural heritage and values as a means for social cohesion and, indeed, the maintenance of community and regional social capital. These tasks have been fraught with tension and contradiction, both in relation to the conditions of rapid cultural, economic and political change in Asia and globally, but as well because of the tensions between the so called ‘world language English’ and Singapore’s three other official languages, Tamil, Malay and Mandarin. This has been complicated, of course, by the challenges of vibrant regional dialects and the emergence of Singlish as a powerful medium of community life.