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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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Conceptual Teaching in Primary Social Studies: Teaching the Primary Three Reader,“Making the Little Red Dot Blue and Brown” in a Conceptual Way

Leave a Comment / Junior College, Primary School, Secondary School, Social Studies, Social Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Sim Hwee Hwang (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords Social Studies Junior College Secondary School Primary School Social Studies Conceptual Teaching Abstract This paper looks at what conceptual teaching is about, the differences between conceptual and traditional teaching and the advantages of conceptual teaching. Different deductive and inductive approaches for teaching the big ideas of subject

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Diversity: Approaches to building conceptual understanding in the Social Studies classroom

Leave a Comment / Diversity , Junior College, Secondary School, Social Studies, Understanding Social Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Koh Kar Loong Kenneth (Yuying Secondary School (Singapore)) Chelva Rajah S N (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords Social Studies Junior College Secondary School Understanding Social Studies Diversity Abstract With the heightened emphasis placed on students’ understanding of core content or key concepts in the 2016 Social Studies curriculum in secondary schools, it remains of utmost interest

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Developing Conceptual Understanding in Social Studies Using Technology and Discussion

Leave a Comment / Conceptual Understanding in Social Studies , Junior College, Secondary School, Social Studies, Using Technology, Volume 5, Issue 2 2016 /

Mark Baildon (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Michelle Lin (Pei Hwa Secondary School, Singapore) Gean Chia (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords Social Studies Junior College Secondary School Conceptual Understanding in Social Studies Using Technology Introduction Social studies concepts are tools for understanding our experience, the past, and the social world. They are broad, organizing ideas that can

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Improving Geographical Thinking in the Classroom with the Curriculum Making Model

Leave a Comment / Curriculum Making, Junior College, Secondary School, Thinking Geographically, Volume 4, Issue 1 2015 /

Zainab Banu Hassan (River Valley High School, Singapore) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Curriculum Making Artefact Thinking Geographically Introduction This paper examines and evaluates a curriculum artefact that could be used in teaching about food aid as a strategy to alleviate the problem of food shortage in the Secondary Four human geography chapter on Food

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Concepts as the Grammar of Geography: A Reflection

Leave a Comment / Geographical Concepts, Junior College, Secondary School, Teaching geography , Volume 4, Issue 1 2015 /

Liu Zhen (Loyang Secondary School, Singapore) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Geographical concepts Teaching Geography Thinking Geographically Within geography education, there is discussion about what it means to “think geographically” (Jackson, 2006). One argument is that geographical content (the lists of names and places) is the “vocabulary” of geography, and geographical concepts are the ”grammar”

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Radicalization of Geographical Education in Singapore through Powerful Knowledge and Powerful Pedagogy

Leave a Comment / Geographical Concepts, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 4, Issue 1 2015 /

Paul Seah (Beatty Secondary School, Singapore) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Geographical Concepts Introduction Johnston and Sidaway (2004) posit that there exists a body of knowledge that is taught by experts who produce new knowledge and reproduce old knowledge within disciplines that is identified by their subject matter. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant classified this

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