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Negotiating a sense of home: mainland Chinese student migrants’ childhood education migration experiences in Singapore

Leave a Comment / belonging, Children migration, Featured Articles, home, international student mobility, Junior College, national identity, Secondary School, Volume 12, Issue 1 2024 / XinTong CHEN

XinTong CHEN Keywords children’s migration international student mobility home belonging national identity Abstract As part of the rise in international student mobility, more children are venturing abroad for pre-tertiary education. These children are often embedded in the transnational social field, forging deep and ongoing familial, social-economic, and political connections across borders. Yet, to date, […]

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Immigrant Parents’ Articulation and Imaginings of the Singaporean Education System

Leave a Comment / Education, Featured Articles, immigrant parent, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 12, Issue 1 2024 / Ariel Kit Yen CHUA

Ariel Kit Yen CHUA Lee Tat CHOW Peidong YANG Keywords immigration immigrant parent parenting education Singapore international school bilingualism Abstract Drawing on a study into immigrant parents’ influences on children’s education in Singapore, this paper presents preliminary and partial findings on immigrant parents’ discourses surrounding various forms of schooling or education systems, specifically the

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Cultural Heritage and Identity Formation: A Study of Second-Generation Immigrant Children through Parental Perspectives in Singapore

Leave a Comment / Featured Articles, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 12, Issue 1 2024 / Yi Fei LOH

Yi Fei LOH Lee Tat CHOW Peidong YANG Keywords identity immigrant education ethnic cultures Abstract This paper explores how immigrant parents influence the development of their children’s identities in Singapore, drawing on qualitative interviews with parents from diverse backgrounds. A key focus is the balance between maintaining ethnic traditions and integrating into Singapore society,

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Navigating Singapore’s Education System as an Immigrant Parent

Leave a Comment / Children migration, education, Featured Articles, immigrant parent, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 12, Issue 1 2024 / Tammy ENG Jing Rou

Tammy ENG Jing Rou Lee Tat CHOW Peidong YANG Keywords immigrant parent immigrant children education Abstract This paper examines the challenges faced by immigrant parents in navigating and shaping their children’s education in Singapore. It explores how the parents’ migrant backgrounds influence their actions, reactions, and coping strategies within the Singaporean education system, identifying

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Immigrant Parents and Mother Tongue Language Education in Singapore’s Bilingual System

Leave a Comment / Featured Articles, Junior College, Past Issues, Secondary School, Volume 12, Volume 12, Issue 1 2024 / Britney Qi Wen ONG

Britney Qi Wen ONG Lee Tat CHOW Peidong YANG Keywords immigrant parents Mother Tongue Language (MTL) education Bilingualism, Singapore Abstract Bilingualism has been the cornerstone of Singapore’s language policy since 1959 (Lee & Phua, 2020). Given Singapore’s diverse population, it is crucial to understand how immigrant parents from various cultural backgrounds perceive and engage

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Volume 12, Issue 1 2024

Leave a Comment / Past Issues, Volume 12 / Peidong Yang

Guest Editorial One of the focal issues in the secondary Social Studies (SS) syllabus in Singapore is diversity and identity in the context of globalisation. Specifically, immigration is highlighted as a major contributor to Singapore’s present diversities, and students of SS are expected to appreciate the causes and consequences of immigration, as well as the

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Towards Transformative Pedagogies for Sustainability Education

Leave a Comment / Geography, Junior College, Levels, Primary School, Secondary School, Volume 11, Issue 2 2022 / Tan Qian Hui

Tan Qian Hui (Asia Research Institute(Singapore)) Tricia Seow (National Institute of Education(Singapore)) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Sustainability education should not only strive for pedagogical excellence, but also the formulation of transformative pedagogies. Whereas sustainability education denotes the transmission of sustainability-related content, the pedagogical or praxis-oriented dimension of sustainability education involves the curation of a conducive

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The Pedagogical Affordances of Game-Based Learning: “Getting To Zero” And Pro-Environmental Action

Leave a Comment / Featured Articles, Geography, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 11, Issue 2 2022 / Ong Zhiqing

Ong Zhiqing(National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School In light of concerns over global warming, environmental education has been touted as a means of raising environmental consciousness and effecting transformative change. This paper evaluates the pedagogical affordances of gamification or game based learning in motivating pro-environmental action. In particular, this paper

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Climate Change Education In Singapore: A Survey of Science Teachers

Leave a Comment / Featured Articles, Geography, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 11, Issue 2 2022 / Goh Xin Fang

Goh Xin Fang (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Action has been taken by governments and international organisations to address the global implications of climate change brought about by economic development that is unsustainable. In Singapore, climate change education is one of the numerous strategies mobilised by the state to mitigate

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Teachers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Induced Heat Stress and Related Heat Management Strategies In Singapore’s Schools

Leave a Comment / Featured Articles, Geography, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 11, Issue 2 2022 / Karina Lalchand Sheri

Karina Lalchand Sheri (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Global warming is palpable in Singapore. Given that most classrooms in the country are largely affected by rising ambient temperatures, students are susceptible to heat stress, which undermines their learning productivity. This qualitative study sought to understand what six secondary school teachers

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