School Leadership And Educational Change In Singapore
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School Leadership And Educational Change In Singapore
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Author : Benjamin Wong
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-03-29
School Leadership And Educational Change In Singapore written by Benjamin Wong and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-29 with Education categories.
This book provides readers with insights into how Singapore school leaders are actively engaged in the transformation of the Singapore education system. It brings to attention crucial elucidations of the increasing demand and complexity placed on school leaders through the use of case studies. Each chapter in the book focuses on a particular issue which has become important or has gained renewed importance in the Singapore education system. The chapters first provide a background to the theme under examination and a theoretical basis for discussion. They then narrate the case that shows how school leaders interpret and implement policy initiatives in their respective schools or lead change in that area. The case studies span over a wide range of domains such as instructional leadership, assessment leadership, stakeholder engagement, professional learning communities, and school branding. The data collected from these case studies came primarily from interviews of educators in their respective school contexts, in addition to other sources of data such as artifacts. Each case study highlights descriptions, interpretations, and perspectives across school contexts, which is consistent with the proposition that school leadership is very much shaped by context. At the end of each chapter, there are guiding questions to help readers critically analyse and reflect on the main learning points of the case.
Leadership For Change The Singapore Schools Experience
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Author : Thiam Seng Koh
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2017-12-27
Leadership For Change The Singapore Schools Experience written by Thiam Seng Koh and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-27 with Education categories.
The book shares stories of the role of school leadership in Singapore, with case studies from selected schools, that provides some insights on how Singapore delivers a high-quality education that had led to it achieving high rankings in TIMMS and PISA. This book will provide both the historical and present contexts of changes in the education system, school leadership and teacher leadership in Singapore that made it what it is today. It will distil some universal principles of educational change that school leaders and policy makers can apply in bringing about educational changes that will enhance the learning experiences of students and prepare them for future challenges.
Leadership For Change
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Author : Thiam Seng Koh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Leadership For Change written by Thiam Seng Koh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with EDUCATION categories.
Learning From Singapore
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Author : Pak Tee Ng
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-01-12
Learning From Singapore written by Pak Tee Ng and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-12 with Education categories.
Learning from Singapore tells the inside story of the country’s journey in transforming its education system from a struggling one to one that is hailed internationally as effective and successful. It is a story not of the glory of international test results, but of the hard work and tenacity of a few generations of policy makers, practitioners and teacher trainers. Despite its success, Singapore continues to reform its education system, and is willing to deal with difficult issues and challenges of change. Citing Singapore's transformation, author Pak Tee Ng highlights how context and culture affect education policy formulation and implementation. Showing how difficult education reform can be when a system needs to negotiate between competing philosophies, significant trade-offs, or paradoxical positions, this book explores the successes and struggles of the Singapore system and examines its future direction and areas of tension. The book also explores how national education systems can be strengthened by embracing the creative tensions generated by paradoxes such as the co-existence of timely change and timeless constants, centralisation and decentralisation, meritocracy and compassion, and teaching less and learning more. Learning from Singapore brings to the world the learning from Singapore—what Singapore has learned from half a century of educational change—and encourages every education system to bring hope to and secure a future for the next generation.
Diversifying Schools
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Author : David Hung
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-02-04
Diversifying Schools written by David Hung and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-04 with Education categories.
This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations. It documents the change journey of Specialized Schools and Future Schools in Singapore with a view to understand the key tenets that enable school wide change and reform. The intents for change and reform are to anchor the education system to the basic foundations and principles of education and yet enable the system as a whole to be malleable to change and globalization. It shows how Singapore enables diversity within a structured environment through innovations in Specialized and Future Schools, and highlights the systemic rationale behind various efforts in Specialized and Future Schools and the kinds of adaptations schools have made to leverage structures and make adjustments for their contexts.
Singapore School Principals Leadership Stories
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Author : Boon Zoe Suan Loy
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2018-04-09
Singapore School Principals Leadership Stories written by Boon Zoe Suan Loy and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with Education categories.
This book is undertaken by the author who has personally walked the journey of a classroom teacher, middle leader and school principal in the Singapore education system. It is a culmination of two research projects undertaken in two phases -- the first is derived from the PhD Thesis entitled The Making of School Principals in Singapore and the second is based on interviews with school principals who have retired from the Singapore education system. Both research projects provide invaluable input to describe the four career phases of school leadership, that is, formation, accession, incumbency, and divestiture. This research describes how the formative years of a school principal have tremendous impact on who the principal is, and how the values and beliefs of an aspiring/potential school leader serve to guide him/her in taking on the principalship post. This well-structured book is both exploratory and descriptive. It provides the necessary background for anyone interested in understanding school leadership as a career. More specifically, it will be of value to educators and stakeholders interested in understanding the nature of school leadership in the Singapore education system. Contents: Introduction The Singapore Education System Literature Review Research Methodology and Design The Formative Years Accession: On Becoming a School Principal Incumbency Divestiture Discussion Conclusion Readership: Researchers, students and the general public who are interested to understand the nature of school leadership in the Singapore education system. Keywords: Principalship;School Leadership;Case Studies;Singapore Education System;Teaching CareerReview: Key Features: This book is written from the perspectives of a practitioner researcher. The author has served as a classroom teacher, middle leader and principal in the Singapore education system in addition to being a trainer and people developer in school leadership programmes in the National Institute of Education, NTU The life stories of school leaders and retired principals will be informative to serving principals The life stories of first time principals and experienced school leaders can be useful for teaching aspiring middle leaders and school principals
Innovations In Educational Change
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Author : David Hung
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-08-07
Innovations In Educational Change written by David Hung and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-07 with Education categories.
This book offers an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of spreading and sustaining educational innovations. It explores the imperatives underpinning educational reforms and identifies the role of schools in developing, disseminating, and sustaining changes in Singapore’s educational context. It also includes international case studies that examine the dialectical relationships between structure, people and culture and demonstrate that cultivating ecologies involves leveraging affordances and resources across the education system to create new contexts, synergies and capacities. Further, it argues that educational innovations and reforms also need to consider tacit knowledge and conditions of transfer, which may be ambiguous and challenging. Few books address the nuances and interactions of innovation and change across levels of the education ecology – from the micro (classroom), meso (organisation / school), exo (partners), macro (policy) and chrono (time scales) levels. The ecological perspective adopted in this book explores the dynamic tensions in order to understand the interplays of policy and school-level influences that contextualize school innovations. By presenting multiple voices and views, it allows impediments and affordances of innovation diffusion to be discussed holistically, which is an integral caveat for nurturing a sustainable ecology that enables innovations.
Perspectives On School Leadership In Asia Pacific Contexts
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Author : Salleh Hairon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-08-06
Perspectives On School Leadership In Asia Pacific Contexts written by Salleh Hairon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Education categories.
This book casts a refreshingly new light on current literature on school leadership, which has predominantly been viewed through Western lenses. Accordingly, key concepts and theories on leadership and school leadership have primarily been generated from thinking and research in the Western sphere. This is problematic, considering the fact that the leadership concept or construct, and its practices, are significantly influenced and shaped by contexts, and even situations. However, there are various contextual conditions and forces that can separately or collectively affect how school leadership is understood and practiced, including social, cultural, historical, geographical, economic and political conditions. In response, the book seeks to provide readers a better awareness of how the leadership construct or phenomenon is shaped by the varying contexts constantly affecting school leadership, while specifically focusing on the Asia Pacific region. In turn, it highlights various Asia Pacific contexts that shape school leadership, so as to ‘speak back’ to existing theories on school leadership.
Singapore S Approach To Developing Teachers
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Author : Woon Chia Liu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Singapore S Approach To Developing Teachers written by Woon Chia Liu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Education categories.
Singapore’s education system has come to international attention due to its commendable performance on the Worldwide Educating for the Future Index produced by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), as well as the students’ continual sterling performance in internationally benchmarked tests such as Trends in International Math and Science Survey (TIMSS), and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The accomplishments are the result of a long-haul vision of education, and more importantly, a deep commitment towards developing teachers for the 21st century. Singapore has invested steadfastly from the early years in teachers at the front line of the classrooms in schools. This book explicates the ‘thinking’ behind Singapore’s approach to developing teachers and building the teaching profession. It examines how Singapore strives to attract the best and the brightest people to become teachers, develop them into autonomous professionals, and grow them over their career so that they are able to deliver quality education for every child. The author hopes that by sharing the hindsight, insight and foresight of the system, and looking at Singapore's aspirations and challenges, the book can stimulate reflection and generate discussion, and provide ideas for improving teaching and teacher learning worldwide.
Leading Education Systems
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Author : Stephen Brown
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-03
Leading Education Systems written by Stephen Brown and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-03 with Education categories.
As the once-in-a-lifetime stimulus of a pandemic creates the opportunity for change, this ground-breaking and timely edited text is a must-have springboard for the re-imagination of education system leadership. How can education stakeholders act in collaboration to lead us into a new and different age?