Educating in a Turbulent World
The chapter addresses the challenges that are facing Singapore’s education system in a post-LKY era, as highlighted by the contributing authors. It highlights two key educational imperatives to prepare students for the future—innovation and social cohesio
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Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy The Challenges of Success
Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy
Oon-Seng Tan Ee-Ling Low David Hung •
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Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy The Challenges of Success
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Editors Oon-Seng Tan National Institute of Education Singapore Singapore
David Hung National Institute of Education Singapore Singapore
Ee-Ling Low National Institute of Education Singapore Singapore
ISBN 978-981-10-3523-4 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3525-8
ISBN 978-981-10-3525-8
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Foreword
In this volume, Profs. Oon-Seng Tan, Ee-Ling Low and David Hung, and their colleagues at the National Institute of Education in Singapore set out to explain how much of the trajectory of Singapore’s education system was influenced by the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The result is a highly readable and informative account of Singapore’s education journey, since the nation achieved limited self-government in 1956, and independence in 1965, to the present. The authors offer a nuanced and balanced view, from the vantage point that their perspective as insiders and as academic leaders in Singapore’s flagship education institution affords them. They examine Singapore’s educational achievement across the four ‘eras’ of the education system, and expand upon the tensions and challenges facing the system, particularly as the nation continues to progress rapidly into the twenty-first century. The book is of interest because of Singapore’s well-known improbable trajectory and because of the key
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