1st Edition
Developing Future-ready Learners for a Global Age Pedagogical Innovations in Singapore
Choo, Liu, and Chua offer a dynamic look into the tripartite relationship between education research, policy, and practice that characterizes Singapore’s changing education landscape.
Over the years, Singapore has garnered increasing attention internationally for its world-class education system. Pushing back against the stereotypical notions of exam- and teacher-centric education in Asia, the contributors to this volume discuss opportunities as well as challenges in Singapore’s innovation towards constructivist, critical, culturally responsive and cosmopolitan forms of learning. Highlighting the pedagogical innovation and its context in Singapore’s teacher education and schools, the authors bridge theory and practice by providing an understanding of innovative practices informed by key shifts in Singapore's education policies and key conceptual principles informing these practices. More importantly, it provides on-the-ground empirical insights into the ways these innovative pedagogical practices are enacted in the classroom and in teacher education programmes. Each chapter provides in-depth understanding of how these pedagogies are applied across various subject disciplines including guided problem-solving in Mathematics, games-based pedagogy in science, multimodal literacies in language, ethical criticism in Literature, non-linear pedagogy in Physical Education, multicultural approaches in music, and dialogic pedagogy in drama, among others.
Balancing theoretical and empirical focus, this resourceful text will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners in educational development, pedagogy, and teacher education, as well as policymakers across international fields in education.
Introduction: Developing Future-ready Learners for a Global Age – Overview of Pedagogical Innovations in Singapore
Suzanne S. Choo, Woon Chia Liu, Bee Leng Chua and Warrick Li Quan Tan
Section 1: Pedagogical Innovations Across Subjects
Chapter 1. Problem-based Learning in Teacher Education: Impact on Student Teachers’ Motivational Orientations
Bee Leng Chua and Woon Chia Liu
Chapter 2. Instructional Core and the Singapore Teaching Practice: Understanding Teaching and Learning in Singapore’s Primary and Secondary Classrooms
Dennis Kwek, Hwei Ming Wong, Divya Bhardwaj, Wartik Binte Hassan, Shijian Lim and Hock Huan Goh
Chapter 3. Differentiated Instruction in Singapore: A Tale of Two Teachers
Tang T. Heng
Section 2: Pedagogical Innovations in Mathematics and Sciences
Chapter 4. Singapore Mathematics Pedagogies for Developing Future-Ready Learners
Joseph B. W. Yeo, Ban Heng Choy and Berinderjeet Kaur
Chapter 5. Helping Children with Word Problems: Metacognition and How Teachers can Activate it
Kit Ee Dawn Ng, Ngan Hoe Lee, Lu Pien Cheng and Kai Kow Joseph Yeo
Chapter 6. Constructivist Learning Design: A Pedagogical Innovation for the Singapore Mathematics Curriculum
Ngan Hoe Lee, June Lee, Zi Yang Wong, Mei Liu and Charmaine Wah
Chapter 7. Implementing Neuroscientific Game-based Pedagogy to Remediate Math Learning Struggles in Singapore: A CEREBRATE-MATH Model
Azilawati Jamaludin, and Aik Lim Tan
Chapter 8. A Framework For Pedagogical Practices in Integrated STEM Lessons
Yann Shiou Ong, Tang Wee Teo and Aik-Ling Tan
Chapter 9. Demonstrating Productive Disciplinary Engagement in Biology Education through NecomimiTM
Yew-Jin Lee and Yann Shiou Ong
Chapter 10. Piquing Students’ Interests in Learning Dynamics through Lego Mindstorms®
Shao Wei Koh, Kenneth Y T Lim and Ahmed Hazyl Hilmy
Chapter 11. Weakness as an Orientation for the Future: Makerspaces, Inventive Thinking, and Student Initiative
Michael Tan and Wendy Huang
Chapter 12. Developing Nonlinear Pedagogy in Teacher Education Programmes
Jia Yi Chow, Irfan Ismail and John Komar
Chapter 13. Artificial Intelligence as an Enabler of Innovative Pedagogies in Physical Education
John Komar, Corliss Z. Y. Choo, Irfan Ismail and Jia Yi Chow
Section 3: Pedagogical Innovations in Arts, Humanities and Languages
Chapter 14. A Pedagogical Approach towards Designing for Multimodal Literacy Learning with Picture Books
Fei Victor Lim and Thi Thu Ha Nguyen
Chapter 15. Reshaping Literacy Development in 21st Century Singapore
Alexius Chia and Caroline Chan
Chapter 16. Adopting an Integrated Approach to Oracy Development in Singapore’s Primary Classrooms
Kiren Kaur
Chapter 17. Multiculturalism in a Singapore Music Classroom: Beyond Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Eddy K. M. Chong
Chapter 18. Teacher Agency and Curriculum Making: Supporting Inquiry-Based Learning in Geographical and Sustainability Education
Tricia Seow
Chapter 19. Developing Historical Thinking and Reasoning through Inquiry
Suhaimi Afandi and Mark Baildon
Chapter 20. Transtextual Pedagogies in the Teaching of Literature: Insights from Literature Classrooms in Singapore
Suzanne S. Choo and Dominic Nah
Biography
Suzanne S. Choo is Associate Professor in the English Language and Literature department and Singapore Centre for Character and Citizenship Education, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
Woon Chia Liu is the Director of the National Institute of Education, and a Professor in the Psychology and Child & Human Development department, both at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Bee Leng Chua is the Chief Learning and Innovation Officer and Associate Professor at the Psychology and Child & Human Development department, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
