Diversifying schools : systemic catalysts for educational innovations in Singapore

Diversifying schools : systemic catalysts for educational innovations in Singapore / David Hung, Longkai Wu, Dennis Kwek, editors.

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. T...

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Other Authors: Hung, David (Editor), Wu, Longkai (Editor), Kwek, Dennis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Series:Education in the Asia-Pacific region ; v. 61.
Subjects:
Educational change > Singapore.
Educational innovations > Singapore.
Educational change
Educational innovations
Innovacions educatives.
Reforma de l'educació.
Singapore
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section One: Case studies of Diversified Adoption of Innovation
  • Chapter 1 Creating sustainable levers for ICT integration: A development trajectory of an ICT-enriched school
  • Chapter 2 Nurturing maker dispositions among children with open-source tools: a case study of a junior high school in Singapore
  • Chapter 3 Scaling Community, Conditions, Culture and Carryovers through Apprenticing and Ecological Leadership: The SCAEL Model
  • Chapter 4 Learning Initiatives for the Future of Education (LIFE): "It takes a Village" to enable Research Practice Nexus
  • Section Two: Diversified Changes from the School View
  • Chapter 5 An Exploration of Contextual Factors in Enacting Making-Centered Learning Programmes in Singapore Schools
  • Chapter 6 School-based Niche Programmes in Singapore
  • Chapter 7 Exploring out-of-classroom structural affordances for learning: A case study of a co-curricular activity
  • Chapter 8 Fostering school-wide knowledge building practice and culture: The realities of leadership by the middle managers through network
  • Section Three: Diversified Changes from the Systems View
  • Chapter 9 School to School Networks for Sustaining Education Innovation Change: Situating Teacher Leaders at Every Middle of the System
  • Chapter 10 Addressing the skills gap: What schools can do to cultivate innovation and problem solving
  • Chapter 11 Leadership Supporting Innovation in Curriculum: Essential Lessons
  • Chapter 12 Teacher learning communities as catalytic levers for educational innovations in Singapore schools
  • Chapter 13 An Exploratory Approach to Teacher Professional Development in a Secondary School in Singapore
  • Chapter 14 Capacity Building as a Driver for Innovation and Change: Different Contexts, Different Pathways
  • Chapter 15 The Problem of Integration: How Schools Can Fill the Skills Gap
  • Section Four: The International perspective
  • Chapter 16 Exemplary Career Educational Practices of Joetsu City in Japan
  • Chapter 17 The Evolution of Efforts to Improve Education in New York City (2001 - 2016)
  • Chapter 18 Doing Things Differently in Order to Do Them Better: An Assessment of the Factors that Influence Innovation in Schools and School Systems
  • Section Five - Conclusion
  • Chapter 19 Building a cohesive 21st century learning orientated community in Singapore - Summary and Conclusion.

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