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Ee Ling Low – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2024
With disruptions such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changing our lives and challenging all nations to rethink our current paradigms of teaching and learning and paradigms of living and working, the world needs to educate our young to be future-ready in more deliberate ways.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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Gibbs, Graham – Journal of Management Education, 2016
This paper, a rejoinder to "Isn't It Time We Did Something about the Lack of Teaching Preparation in Business Doctoral Programs?" by Marx et al., suggests glancing at practices outside the United States to get some perspective on the nature of the problem of why so little emphasis is placed on teaching preparation in business doctoral…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change, Preservice Teacher Education
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Atencio, Matthew; Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The study featured in this paper investigates pre- and in-service Physical Education (PE) teachers' diverse views of OE (Outdoor Education) against the backdrop of numerous curricular changes underpinning Singaporean education. We highlight the potential challenges Singaporean schools and teachers may face in implementing the newly formalized OE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Thaver, Thana; Lim, Levan – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
2004 has come to be seen by many in Singapore as a watershed year with the shift in the position of the government towards encouraging greater integration of students with disabilities in mainstream settings. This study investigated the attitudes of 1538 mainstream pre-service teachers towards disability and inclusive education during this period…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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D'Rozario, Vilma; Low, Ee Ling; Avila, Ava Patricia; Cheung, Stephane – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
In line with the Ministry of Education's vision of the delivery of twenty-first century competencies amongst all students in Singapore, the National Institute of Education in Singapore employs service learning as a pedagogical tool to develop community outreach and engagement. This paper begins with a review of related literature on service…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Hall, Gene E., Ed.; Quin, Linda F., Ed.; Gollnick, Donna M., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018
This enlightening handbook offers current, international perspectives on the conditions in communities, contemporary practices in schooling, relevant research on teaching and learning, and implications for the future of education. It contains diverse conceptual frameworks for analyzing existing issues in education, including but not limited to…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Context Effect
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Divaharan, Shanti; Lim, Wei-Ying; Tan, Seng-Chee – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This paper traces the evolution of the design framework for the use of technology in a teacher education program in a Singaporean university. This course focuses on developing student teachers' capacity for the use of ICT in teaching and learning. We report our two-level reflection: one that focuses on the trajectory of the course design, and one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
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Hogan, David; Gopinathan, S. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
In 1997, Singapore's Ministry of Education (MOE) committed itself to an ambitious program of pedagogical reform in Singaporean schools in anticipation of the kind of institutional challenges--particularly those in increasingly globalized labor markets--that young Singaporeans were likely to face in the coming decades. Since then, the Ministry has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Educational Change, Labor Market
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Deng, Zongyi – Teaching Education, 2004
This article attempts to identify the limitations inherent in the model of teacher preparation as training within the context of current educational reforms in Singapore. Through clarifying the distinction between training and education, this article argues that two largely overlooked aspects of teacher education--one concerning transforming the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Theory Practice Relationship
Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Online Submission, 2004
This paper explains how at the institutional level a teacher preparation agency responds to the changes as mandated by the Ministry of Education in Singapore. In particular, it focuses on how the English Language Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) Programme has been responding to the changes to more effectively prepare pre-service…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Secondary School Teachers
Khoo, Maureen; And Others – 1991
This article examines the changing nature of the 2-year Diploma in Education program for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. It describes the evolution of language teacher training from the 1970s through the 1990s and the factors influencing the changing nature of the teacher education…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary School Curriculum
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This volume of the 30th annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents: plenary panel papers; research forum papers; short oral communication papers; and poster presentation papers from the meeting. Information relating to discussion groups and working sessions is also provided.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction