Editors’ forward for HSSE’s special issue on sustainability This special edition of HSSE Online places the spotlight on the overarching themes of sustainability, sustainable development and sustainability-related pedagogies. The eight articles in this edition run along two key strands, with the first one attending to the (un)sustainable use of resources. Ayshathun Munavvara expounds on the […]
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Ayshathun Munavvara (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School A close examination of Tonlé Sap Lake reveals a paradox — its flood extent has increased despite a reduction in water volume. Agricultural intensification in Cambodia has led to unsustainable rates of groundwater use for irrigation. This paper postulates that land subsidence due
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Edward Tan Yu Fan (Ministry of Education (Singapore) Keywords History Approaches to teaching history The comparison of sources forms a cornerstone of the historical discipline; however, there remains room for exploration in terms of what are the various moves that goes into the operations of comparing between sources. This article examines the role of comparisons,
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Seow Yongzhi (Broadrick Secondary School (Singapore) Keywords History Approaches to teaching history This paper identifies a gap between the teaching and assessment of historical concepts in upper secondary history in national examinations. It proposes four structured-essay question (SEQ) framings to assess students’ understanding of change and continuity, to be graded using the Levels of Response Mark
Lim Ying Xuan (Chung Cheng High School (Yishun),(Singapore) Keywords History Approaches to teaching history This article proposes the usage of ‘how’ questions to develop historical understandings and an appreciation of the historical process. ‘How’ inquiries elicit a temporal dimension that is necessary for historical understanding, especially bolstering the concept of chronology. This article contends that more
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Oh Ying Jie (Beatty Secondary School (Singapore) Keywords History Approaches to teaching history Since its inception in 2014, Historical Investigation (HI) has been an integral part of the lower secondary history syllabus. However, some history educators have found the process to be extremely tedious and many would rather opt for direct instruction or to undertake a
Lloyd T.C. Yeo (Academy of Singapore Teachers (Singapore) Teddy Sim Y.H. (National Institute of Education (Singapore) Keywords History Approaches to teaching history This article uncovers the alternative conceptions that students have of the study of Singapore during the Temasek period through students’ cartoons, in the process deriving implications for future teaching through an analysis of the work
Candice Yvette Seet Siew Yan (Loyang View Secondary School (Singapore) Teo See Hian (Loyang View Secondary School (Singapore) Amelia Yeo Jiaxin (Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School (Singapore) Keywords History Approaches to teaching history This article discusses the merits of the intentional use of conceptual lenses that spirals across the four years of a student’s secondary-level History education to
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Foreword This volume of HSSE Online continues our conversation on history education. In this volume, history educators, pre-service teachers, and experienced practitioners reflect on the “knowledge-turn” within the history curriculum. In recent years, the subject of history is no longer seen as the mere acquisition of facts about the past. Rather, it is seen as
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Aloysius Foo (National Institute of Education (Singapore)) Keywords Social Studies Junior College Secondary School Social Studies social studies education Singapore teacher professional learning While the term “neighbourhood school” is popularly used in Singaporean parlance as well as by academics to describe a typical, government-run school, it has not been subjected to close scrutiny. Using Pierre
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