Mentoring and School Partnerships
According to Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon’em” (Shakespeare, trans. 1601 , 02 , 2.5.146–147). Similarly in teaching, some are born to teach, some acquire skills t
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cher Education in the 21st Century Singapore’s Evolution and Innovation
Teacher Education in the 21st Century
Oon-Seng Tan Woon-Chia Liu Ee-Ling Low •
Editors
Teacher Education in the 21st Century Singapore’s Evolution and Innovation
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Editors Oon-Seng Tan National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore
Ee-Ling Low National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore
Woon-Chia Liu National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore
ISBN 978-981-10-3384-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3386-5
ISBN 978-981-10-3386-5
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Foreword
Our world is changing at lightning speed. It will continue to change on a global scale even if we as individuals or local communities do not. What are we doing to help to direct all of the change—technological, demographic, and cultural—that is happening around us? What can be done to help a rising generation to meet not only the demands of the time they now live in, but also the time they will have to live in for years to come? One increasing focus of international attention in regard to these questions is the Singapore education system. This is a system that has surprised everyone with its meteoric rise in international rankings. It also is a system that avoids fashionable shibboleths that contend that the starting point for educational reflections should be the individual child and his or her momentary passions. Such a perspective will always fail to grasp the dynamic societal context in its evolving totality. Instead, one needs to begin with the adults with profe
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