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Tan, Aik Lim; Jamaludin, Azilawati; Hung, David – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2021
This paper explores the dimensions of how interest can be sustained in learners, using a case study of a makerspace in a Singapore context. We suggest a framework that synthesises both individual psychological aspects of interest development together with the impact of the socio-cultural environment which include five dimensions: community,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Design, Psychological Patterns
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Yang, Weipeng; Peh, Jaslene; Ng, Siew Chin – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Teacher research has been promoted as a context-relevant approach to improving children's learning experiences in early childhood settings. In this article, we focus on social-emotional learning (SEL), a crucial domain of the early childhood curriculum, to illustrate the role of teacher research in changing early childhood teachers' everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Researchers, Preschool Education
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Ho, Li-Ching – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
This paper uses the concept of stories of peoplehood to examine how the Singapore government has constructed a story of harmony and to consider how this story has influenced two important school subjects focused on civic education: Social Studies and Character and Citizenship Education. Stories of peoplehood, including constitutive, economic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Education, Values Education
Merrill, Robert S., Ed.; Willner, Dorothy, Ed. – 1983
The fundamental theme of these papers is what constitutes the common good and the issues and problems related to the understanding of that common good. Several anthropologists and a political scientist explore this theme in various geographic settings and from many theoretical and methodological perspectives. Among the countries and cultures…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Crime
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2003
This study aimed to find out whether Singaporean secondary social studies textbooks contain global themes, in which grade level those global themes are introduced, the percentage of global themes in each textbook, and which global themes are emphasized. A checklist consisting of four main global themes was developed. Those are (1) global systems…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Social Studies
2000
This document consists of three symposia papers on human resources development (HRD) in Asia. "The Impact of Action Learning on the Conflict-Handling Styles of Managers in a Malaysian Firm" (Antony Hii, Michael J. Marquardt) presented results of a quantitative study of a three-month action learning program on managers'…
Descriptors: College Administration, Conflict Resolution, Developing Nations, Economic Development