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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).
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
“Their Minds Must Be Improved to a Certain Degree”: A Learning Cycles Approach to Inquiry
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,
Authentic Assessment in Social Studies
Janet Alleman (Michigan State University) Keywords Social Studies Primary School Assessment Introduction Just when the tendency to ‘measure’ entered education and the schools is not definitely known. We do know, however, that even early teachers including Socrates challenged their students with carefully prepared questions which undoubtedly were used to determine students’ intellectually capacity and abilities to
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Exploring the Pedagogical Nature of Historical Texts: Implications for Classroom Teaching
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
What about Geography? The Geography Curriculum, Young People, Critical Thinking and Active Learning
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
Geography Fieldwork is Not Mission Impossible
Yuen, Kah Mun (Commonwealth Secondary School, Singapore) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School Fieldwork eography teachers face numerous difficulties in conducting fieldwork for their students. While the national curriculum is shifting towards a field inquiry approach, some pre-existing problems remain, such as the issues of large class sizes, the lack of suitable sites due to our
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Research into Practice: Tuning in to the “Chorus of History” Through the Use of Oral History in the Classroom
Brady Baildon (National Institute of Education) Kevin Blackburn (National Institute of Education) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Primary School Oral History sing oral histories in history and social studies classrooms can highlight the fact that historical sources are authored and contain particular assumptions, biases, and perspectives about the world. They require critical evaluation to understand why
Research into Practice: Understanding the Vietnam War from the Communists’ Perspective
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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