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Tan, Justina Puay Inn – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine the socialisation of new teachers into teaching in a school in Singapore through the lenses of positioning theory and micropolitical theory. Individually, they have been drawn on to discuss the socialisation of teachers. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no prior study that examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Teacher Orientation, Beginning Teachers
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Tan, Puay Inn Justina – New Horizons in Education, 2012
Background: In Singapore, one in four in the teaching profession is a second career teacher. Unlike the past, individuals considering teaching today have more career options. On average, since 2008, 35% of the newly recruited teachers have at least one year of working experience. The Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) is looking to attract more…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Career Change
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Gao, Ping; Wong, Angela F. L.; Choy, Doris; Wu, Jing – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
As part of a two-year, mixed methods study, the focus of this paper reports the qualitative findings that are related to nine beginning teachers' learning to teach with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) during their first year of teaching. It aims to explore how these teachers deepen their understanding performances of technology…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Gao, Ping; Wong, Angela F. L.; Choy, Doris; Wu, Jing – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This paper reports one major finding from a large two-year, mixed-methods study that investigated the process of beginning teachers' learning to teach with information and communication technology (ICT). Among the ten participants involved in the qualitative portion of the study, three stood out from the rest in their effort to use ICT in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Constructivism (Learning), Technology Integration
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Light, Richard; Tan, Steven – European Physical Education Review, 2006
Despite the diversity of cultural settings within which it is now being implemented, research on Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) is yet to address the impact of culture on teaching and learning. With its growth in Asia, in places such as Singapore and Hong Kong that are culturally distinct from western settings, this seems to be an area of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Cultural Context, Preservice Teacher Education