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Dr. Lau Wai Har: A Select Bibliography

About Dr. Lau Wai Har

Dr. Lau Wai Har was Director, Institute of Education from 1976 to 1979. She had served over 40 years in education in Singapore.

Dr. Lau, a bilingual educational psychologist, cared deeply about mother tongue instruction. Among her various achievements, she was pivotal in ensuring that teachers of the four official languages were prepared with the same standards and rigour.

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Note: Access to licensed resources in this bibliography is only available to NIE staff and students. 

Books

刘蕙霞. (1980). 石膏与我. 教育出版社.
 
刘蕙霞. (1992). 别做断了线的风筝. 山景出版社.
 
刘蕙霞. (1997). 刘蕙霞论文集. 友联书局.
 
刘蕙霞. (2005). 石膏与我. 创意圈出版社.
 
刘蕙霞. (2013). 刘蕙霞文集. 新加坡文艺协会.
 
Lau, W. H. (1968). Why teach? A study of motives for choosing teaching as a career. Teachers’ Training College (Singapore).
 
Lau, W. H. (1971). Qualitative evaluation for primary teacher education in Singapore. International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO).
 
Lau, W. H. (2006). The plaster and I (L. L. Ho, Trans.). Candid Creation Publishing. (Original work published in 1980).

Book Chapters

刘蕙霞. (1978). 怎样使生活教育教学有效率. 在新加坡教育部课本与刊物组 (主编), 生活教育文集 (页12-17). 教育出版社.
 
刘蕙霞. (1987). 从理想到现实: 中学里教导儒家伦理所面对的一些问题. 在刘述先 (主编), 儒家伦理研讨会论文集 (页264-274). 东亚哲学研究所.
 
刘蕙霞. (1995). 儒家伦理课程给我们的启示. 在盛碧珠 (主编), 孔圣降生二五四五周年纪念, 南洋孔教会成立八十周年纪念双庆特刊 (页153-154). 新加坡南洋孔教会.
 
刘蕙霞. (2002). 新加坡有多绿. 在许福吉、赵丽宏 (主编), 城市的呼吸 (页3-7). 上海文艺出版社.
 
刘蕙霞. (2003). 从现代学习理论看孔子的学习方法. 在陈荣照 (主编), 儒学与世界文明: 国际学术会议论文选集下册 (页559-564). 新加坡国立大学中文系, 八方文化企业公司.
 
刘蕙霞. (2010). 青翠如初. 在骆明、长河 (主编), 新加坡当代华文文学作品选. 散文卷下册 (页20-23). 新加坡青年书局.
 
Lau, W. H. (1972). Impact of modernization on women. In Modernization in Singapore: Impact on the individual (pp. 86-87). University Education Press.
 
Lau, W. H. (1976). A professional’s view. In The state of the teaching profession: Report of the public forum held at the DBS Auditorium on 10 May 1976 (pp. 5-6). Singapore Educational Administration Society.
 
Lau, W. H. (1981). Reading research in Singapore: Trends and prospects. In S. V. Krishnan (Ed.), The reading habit: Regional seminar on the promotion of the reading habit (pp. 22-31). National Book Development Council of Singapore.
 
Lau, W. H. (1999). Bridging the gap between the two worlds: The English-educated and the Chinese educated. In K.-W. Kwok, C. G. Kwa, L. Kong, & B. Yeoh (Eds.), Our place in time: Exploring heritage and memory in Singapore (pp. 199-207). Singapore Heritage Society.
 
Lau, W. H. (2000). My personal memories of the National Library. In K. W. Kwok, W. H. Ho, & K. L. Tan (Eds.), Between forgetting and remembering: Memories and the National Library (pp. 23-35). Singapore Heritage Society.

Conference Papers / Presentations

Lau, W. H. (1973, August 21 - 23). Education and development – Singapore’s experience [Paper presentation]. Friends’ World Committee for Consultation Regional Conference, Sydney, Australia. https://hdl.handle.net/10497/19705
 
Lau, W. H. (1974, March 12-14). Education for living: An appreciation [Paper presentation]. IE Staff Seminar on The New Primary School Curriculum, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10497/19829 

Journal Articles

Lau, W. H. (1968). Teacher education in the U.S.S.R. The Teacher Today, 1(3), 69-74.
 
Lau, W. H. (1968). The future of teacher-education in Singapore. The Teacher Today, 1(1), 19-21.
 
Lau, W. H., & Soh, K. C. (1971). Educational attitudes of some primary school principals in Singapore. Educational Review, 23(2), 143–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013191710230206 
 
Lau, W. H. (1989). Shaping moral and social development through Confucian ethics: A Singapore experience. Southeast Asian Journal of Educational Studies, 26, 35-41.
 
锐敏, & 刘蕙霞. (1994). 强制教育可以防止学生辍学. 世界教育信息, (1), 23-25.
 
刘蕙霞. (2012). 在乡下的日子. 新华文学, 77, 92-94. http://www.singaporewriters.org.sg/xinhua77.pdf 
 

Others

Lau, W. H. (n.d.). Singapore’s experience in the writing and teaching of Confucian ethics as a school subject: An abstract [Unpublished manuscript]. https://hdl.handle.net/10497/20523 

Lau, W. H. (1961). A study of motives for teaching among training college students [Unpublished manuscript].

Lau, W. H. (1964). Attitudes towards family, race, teaching and self among Malayan and English students [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Birmingham.

李绵研, & 刘蕙霞. (1987). 示范教学: 儒家伦理课程 [Video]. Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore.

Lau, W. H. (1994, June 8). Education in Singapore (Part 2: Chinese) [新加坡教育史; Interview]. National Archives of Singapore, Oral History Centre. https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/interview/001501 

Works about Dr. Lau W. H.

雷榎华. 2020. 纪念刘惠霞博士=In memory of Dr Lau Wai Har. 在... 步轻风=…Walking in blessing breeze (页29-36). 新加坡文艺协会.