This book provides an insider’s perspective of the Singapore education system that views teacher capacity building as a key lever for quality educational experiences. It describes experiences from policy conceptualisation to practice implementations of teacher learning. This book includes international perspectives in the form of expert commentaries and critique where comparisons are made between Singapore’s experiences and those of other education systems.
This book offers teachers and educators a practical guide to using grammar as a tool for meaning-making, linking it to literacy development. With real-world examples from Asian contexts, it explores key grammar concepts and provides teaching strategies, lesson plans, and reflections from experienced educators.
This book provides a comprehensive framework for transdisciplinary research in higher education, offering tools and case studies to break down disciplinary barriers and enhance teaching, curriculum design, and student engagement in a digitally transforming world.
This book explores transdisciplinary teaching and technology integration in higher education, offering case studies and practical approaches that foster collaboration, critical thinking, and innovation to enhance learning outcomes and address complex challenges.
This book offers an ecocritical and ecofeminist reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s works, revealing how her fiction and nonfiction promote an ethics of difference and engage with themes like postcolonialism, climate change, and social justice.
This book immerses readers in an illuminating exploration of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) within the context of professional development for educators. Based on a systematic examination of classroom realities, this research-intensive book delves into the intricate interplay between teachers' perceived TPACK proficiency, their lesson design, and the actual enactment of these lessons. It emphasizes the role of TPACK in empowering teachers to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) effectively into their pedagogical practices, thereby enhancing 21st Century Competencies (21CC) in students.
This book is a sequel to the book 'Fieldwork in Humanities Education in Singapore' (Springer, 2021). It addresses some of the queries raised in response to the first book, on the utility of the ‘physical’ or ‘face-to-face’ fieldwork. Combining the opportunities unraveled by new technologies and diverse demands to actualize learning, this book showcases a variety of engagements in virtual fieldwork. These demonstrate current developments in the deployment of fieldwork in teaching and learning in Singapore, as well as discuss pertinent interacting issues in technology that arise.
Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens.
Waves Rising is a volume that aims to recover the voice of Ho Poh Fun, an accomplished poet and fiction writer in the 1980s and 1990s, while establishing the contemporary relevance of her work to the growing readership of Singapore literature. Ho’s poetry and short fiction engage with questions of land reclamation, ecological loss and the lived experience of localities in way that were ahead of her time.
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