Fourth Way in action? the evolution of Singapore’s education system

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 65-70 - 2011
Saravanan Gopinathan1
1National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Tóm tắt

Hargreaves and Shirley’s The Fourth Way offers a valuable framework for considering the challenges and dilemmas that confront education change practitioners. In this article, I consider how well their framework fits the evolution and more recent changes in Singapore education. History, context culture and aspirations are seen as providing for significant differences in the Singapore education story.

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