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NIE & Staff Publications: Titles O - S

This is a list of books published from 2024-2025 that were written or edited by NIE staff. The book list was compiled in conjunction with an NIE 75th Anniversary Book Launch event in September 2025.

Titles starting with O - S

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Philosophies in Music Education

This book brings together Asian philosophical traditions and music education, offering fresh perspectives beyond the Western canon. Featuring insights from Asia-based scholars, it presents new pathways for music teaching, learning, and research in global contexts.

Perspectives on Music, Education, and Diversity: A Festschrift Honoring Patricia Shehan Campbell

This book is a Festschrift in celebration of Patricia Shehan Campbell’s impact for more than six decades as an eminent teacher-educator, musician and researcher in the fields of music education and ethnomusicology. Campbell’s oeuvre of scholarly work is wide-ranging, spanning practical resources for music teachers to facilitate the teaching and learning of different musical cultures of the world, to diverse perspectives on the musical cultures of children, to the emblematic approach of World Music Pedagogy fleshed out in the Global Music Series with Oxford University Press, the Routledge World Music Pedagogy Series and her educational work with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, alongside her extensive work with ethnomusicologists and community musicians and scholars across the world.

Problems and Solutions on Solid State Physics, Relativity and Miscellaneous Topics (2nd Ed.)

This volume is a comprehensive compilation of carefully selected questions at the PhD qualifying exam level, including many actual questions from Columbia University, University of Chicago, MIT, State University of New York at Buffalo, Princeton University, University of Wisconsin and the University of California at Berkeley over a twenty-year period. Featuring a division into the three parts which form the title, topics covered in this book include the crystal structure, superconductivity, general relativity, special relativity, and measurements, among many others.

Promoting Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing: : Importance of Partnerships in Building Resilient and Empathic Children

This book explores children's mental health and wellbeing from a developmental systems perspective, using Singapore as a case study. It examines nationwide initiatives across education, health, and social sectors, offering insights into improving mental health support for children and adolescents.

The Reading Lives of Teens: Research and Practice

This book explores the evolving landscape of teen reading, examining what teens read and how to engage them with print and digital texts. Featuring global insights from literacy researchers, it offers strategies and evidence-based recommendations for educators, researchers, and policymakers.

Re-Imagining Learning: Embracing the Future of Education in Singapore

This book is not intended to provide definitive answers or resolutions to all challenges in the future of education. Rather, it is hoped that the thoughts and perspectives of the key figures interviewed could offer a framework to guide an informed and sustainable discourse on the future of education that includes not just educators, policymakers, researchers, and parents, but all relevant stakeholders.

Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2020–2023

This book critically reviews mathematics education research in Australasia from 2020 to 2023, offering insights and resources for researchers, educators, and early career scholars in the region and beyond.

Selected Topics on Generalized Integration

This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth exploration of advanced integration theories, extending beyond classical methods to unify and expand the field. Building on the foundational work of Jaroslav Kurzweil and Ralph Henstock, the book delves into the Henstock–Kurzweil and McShane gauge integrals, presenting a more intuitive and versatile alternative to the traditional Lebesgue integral. By bridging gaps in existing literature, the authors provide a rigorous treatment of integration on metric measure spaces, exploring critical concepts such as completeness, compactness, and Cousin's lemma.

STEM Inquiry and Its Practice in K-12 Classrooms: Activities, Characteristics, and Enactment

This book guides K-12 teachers in exploring integrated STEM inquiry, distinguishing between science and STEM inquiry. It presents three practical instructional frameworks—problem-centric, solution/design-centric, and user-centric—to help educators plan meaningful STEM lessons.

More Publications

To view the complete list of NIE and staff publications, please visit the NIE Library catalogue