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Developing Historical Habits of Mind through Inquiry

Leave a Comment / Historical Thinking, History, Inquiry Teaching, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 5, Issue 1 2016 /

Suhaimi Afandi (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Eulalia Han (CHIJ Secondary School (Toa Payoh)) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Inquiry Teaching Historical thinking Introduction Teaching history is not simply about getting students to learn “the right stories” or getting them to absorb transmitted knowledge about the past; it requires teachers to find means to develop students’ […]

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Learning about Issues through Discussion in the Primary Social Studies Classroom: A Shared Inquiry Approach

Leave a Comment / Primary School, Social Studies, Social Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1 2016 /

Sim Hwee Hwang (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords Social Studies Primary School Social Studies Abstract This article looks at how primary school children can learn about issues in their social studies lessons through discussion. It first spells out the importance of introducing issues in the social studies curriculum for the development of students to be

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Using Investigation and Discussion to Inquire about Issues in Primary Social Studies

Leave a Comment / Inquiry Teaching, Primary School, Social Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1 2016 /

Sim Hwee Hwang (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords Social Studies Primary School Inquiry Teaching Abstract This article begins with the inquiry teaching approach for primary social studies and the rationale for its inclusion in the 2013 syllabus by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. It compares traditional instruction and inquiry-based teaching and describes the two types

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Causal Layered Analysis: Deconstructing Singapore’s 2015 General Election

Leave a Comment / Analysis, History, Secondary School, Volume 5, Issue 1 2016 /

Karthikeyan Rajah Jefferson (National University of Singapore) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Analysis Abstract In explaining social phenomena, students are taught to explicate the causal mechanism between independent factors and a dependent outcome. However, this could lead to a superficial analysis of the phenomenon if students were to focus on precipitating factors. Hence, this paper

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Shifting Scales of Time and Space: Establishing Connections Across the Humanities

Leave a Comment / Historical Thinking, History, Secondary School, Social Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1 2016 /

Tharuka Prematillake Thibbotuwawa (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords History Social Studies Junior College Secondary School Historical thinking Introduction Meaningful understanding of history and geography involves being able to identify and establish connections across time and space scales (An et al., 2015; Bain, 2005; Baker, 2003; Foskett, 1999). Nonetheless, one key problem in the history and

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Developing Historical and Metahistorical Thinking in History Classrooms: Some Reflections on Research and Practice

Leave a Comment / Approaches to Teaching History, History, Junior College, Secondary School, Teachers Practice, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Arthur Chapman (UCL Institute of Education) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Approaches to teaching history Teachers’ Practice Abstract The history of history education, past and present, often resembles a history of contestation, in which rival and polarized understandings of the meanings of ‘history’ and ‘history education’ vie for dominance (Nakou and Barca, 2010). A common

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Military Government and its Discontents: The Significance of the British Military Administration in the History of Singapore and Malaya

Leave a Comment / History, Junior College, Military Government, Secondary School, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Kelvin Ng (CPDD, MOE) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Military Government History of Singapore and Malaya Abstract The post-war British military government in Singapore and Malaya has often been relegated to a marginal place in historiography. In this article, I argue that this period bears closer study, because its legacies were central to the subsequent

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Serious Fun: Game Design to Support Learning about the Surrender of Singapore

Leave a Comment / Game Design, History, Junior College, Secondary School, Surrender of Singapore, Surrender Singapore, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Suny Matt Gaydos (South Korea) Tharuka Prematillake Thibbotuwawa (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Neo Wei Leng (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Connie Tan Keni (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Suhaimi Afandi (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Mark Baildon (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Surrender of Singapore Game Design Serious Fun: Game Design to Support Learning

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Towards an Effective Professional Development Model to Deepen History Teachers’ Understanding of Historical Concepts

Leave a Comment / Approaches to Teaching History, History, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Andrew Anthony (Academy of Singapore Teachers (Singapore)) Lloyd Yeo (Academy of Singapore Teachers (Singapore)) Suhaimi Afandi (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Approaches to teaching history Abstract This small-scale study explores professional development (PD) designs for history teachers in Singapore and proposes a PD model that uses a job-embedded collaborative approach. Drawing from

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Teaching for Historical Understanding (TfHU): Developing a Discipline-based Curriculum Model at Tanjong Katong Secondary School

Leave a Comment / History, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Suhaimi Afandi (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Rozanah Basrun (Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Singapore) Nani Rahayu Mohamed (Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Singapore) Liz Sriyanti Jamaluddin (Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Singapore) Sya Feena (Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Singapore) Nur Hazelin Idayu (Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Singapore) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Abstract This paper reports the experiences of the History Unit

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