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Tan, Charlene; Tan, Chee Soon – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This article critically discusses the Singapore state's endeavor to balance social cohesion and cultural sustainability through the Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) curriculum. This article points out that underpinning the CCE syllabus are the state ideologies of communitarianism and multiracialism. It is argued that the ideology of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Citizenship Education, Social Integration
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Niu, Weihua – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2012
To many Western observers, Confucian-heritage societies, such as Mainland China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, are characterized as collectivist-orientated in nature. Individuals live within the relationship with others, and the value of an individual is expressed by how the person relates to others. People in these societies are…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Ideology