Singapore's remarkable performance in Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA) has placed it among the world's high-performing education systems (HPES). In the …

Most of the struggles for equitable schooling, including multicultural curricula and culturally
responsive teaching, have largely taken place on a local or national stage, with little …

Post-war education and curriculum development was largely nation-centric, seeking to
rebuild education systems for modern times. Late capitalism and globalisation have altered …

Throughout history individual and collective narratives have been used in struggles for
justice. We draw on Sen's theory of justice to examine the potential of narratives in teaching …

History education has often been associated with the inculcation of citizenship values,
especially in the forging of national identity. In instilling a sense of pride in the common past …

The development of education policies is in many aspects driven by nationalist aims,
especially when demonstrating postcolonial autonomy. In the case of Lebanon, Arab and …

National Education (NE) is one of latest nation-building initiatives to address citizenship in
Singapore. Introduced in 1997, the agenda centres around a revitalized conception of …

This article provides a historical overview of civic educational policy and political discourse
in Singapore from 1959 to 2011, focusing on changes in the role attributed to students in the …

This paper looks at how cosmopolitanism is practised amongst Singaporeans who have
experienced Singapore's education reform in the 1990s. Cosmopolitanism in Singapore is …

One winter morning in 2007, I sat with a civics teacher during her break between classes. In
the middle of our conversation on her teaching experiences inside the civics classroom, she …