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“No One Icon”: Secondary Students’ Judgments of Significant Representations of Singapore

Leave a Comment / Concept , History, Junior College, Significance, Singapore Representation, Volume 2, Issue 2 2013 /

Syazwani Binte Amrun (Raffles Girls’ School) Keywords History Junior College Singapore Representation Significance Concept This study was designed to explore how students in a secondary school make sense about the significance of different representations of Singapore, and to examine their ideas on what they conceived as icons of Singapore. The research was conducted in a premier […]

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Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore. By Loh Kah Seng. Singapore: NUS and NIAS Presses, 2013. 330 pp. $38.00 (paper).

Leave a Comment / Book Review, History, Junior College, Singapore History, Volume 2, Issue 2 2013 /

Mark Baildon (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords History Junior College Book Review Singapore History Loh Kah Seng’s new book, Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (NUS & NIAS Presses, 2013) provides a highly interesting social history of urban kampongs in Singapore and the modernist public housing scheme that

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“Their Minds Must Be Improved to a Certain Degree”: A Learning Cycles Approach to Inquiry

Leave a Comment / Inquiry, Primary School, Social Studies /

Parker, Walter (University of Washington) Keywords Social Studies Secondary School Primary School Inquiry Introduction This article introduces a learning cycles model of conducting inquiries with students. It is based on the thinking of philosopher John Dewey (How We Think, 1910) and also on insights from contemporary learning science (e.g., John Bransford et al., How People Learn,

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Exploring the Pedagogical Nature of Historical Texts: Implications for Classroom Teaching

Leave a Comment / Critical Thinking, History, History Textbooks, Secondary School, Volume 1, Issue 1 2012 /

Avner Segall (Michigan State University) Keywords History Secondary School Critical Thinking History Textbooks Reading pedagogy into historical texts Such a focus in history education is important because, as we also know, history and the past are not one and the same. Rather, history, as Seixas (1993) explains “is only a discourse about the past, a story

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What about Geography? The Geography Curriculum, Young People, Critical Thinking and Active Learning

Leave a Comment / Critical Thinking, Geography, Secondary School /

Brooks, Clare (Institute of Education, London) Keywords Geography Secondary School Critical Thinking Critical Thinking in Geography Education Critical thinking is a term that has a great deal of popular appeal with many governments, and can be found in several education policy documents around the globe. However a quick internet and literature search reveals that there is

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Research into Practice: Understanding the Vietnam War from the Communists’ Perspective

Leave a Comment / History, Junior College, Secondary School, Southeast Asia History, Vietnam, Volume 1, Issue 1 2012 /

Royce Chan (National Institute of Education) Cheng Guan Ang (National Institute of Education, Singapore ) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Southeast Asia History Vietnam Most of us are familiar with the narrative of the Vietnam War as it is commonly told in history textbooks: (1) the United States got involved because they were afraid of the

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