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Singapore's Education Journey
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Singapore's Education Journey
Dr Juliana Tay
March 01, 2025
A bit of Singapore's History
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Land size : 733.1 sq km
Population Size: 5,637,000
Population Density: 7,804 /sq km
Racial and ethnic diversity (based on the 2020 population estimate) :
- 74.3% Chinese
- 13.5% Malays
- 9.0% Indians
- 3.2% Others
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita - US$79,576 (2022)
HISTORY
Why?
So, why did you need to know all that?
- Context
- Unique characteristics of Singapore
Challenges
Challenges
Faced by the government when Singapore was FORCED into independence in 1965 (Singapore was expelled from the Malaya Federation)
Diverse population (ethnicities, religions, languages, etc)
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Lowly educated population (mostly)
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People's lack of connection to the country of Singapore
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Singapore's Education Systems
CURRENT EDUCATION
SYSTEM
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- Overview
- Various Education Reforms
EDUCATION
What did the government do?
Core Values
Values are at the core of one's character.
- Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Integrity, Care and Harmony
Social-Emotional Competencies
Competencies necessary for children to develop healthy identities, make responsible decisions, and act for the good of self, others and the society.
- Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making, Social Awareness, Relationship Management
21st Century Competencies
Thinking Schools, Learning Nation (1997)
Teach Less, Learn More (2005)
Learn for Life (2018)
What do you think are some of the reasons behind these inititatives?
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Do you notice something strange about the map?
PATHWAYS
RESULTS FROM THE PATHWAYS
Challenges when implementing the changes
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RESULTS
Do the pathways work?
Stories
- Is there such options for children in China?
- What are some challenges that you can foresee for the same groups of students if they are within the Chinese education system? What will it take to address these issues?
Classroom examples
Changes to the classrooms
Think about the simliarities/ differences among the different classrooms you have learned or experienced
Why do Singapore put so much effort in nurturing ALL children?
A Pragmatic Approach
Beyong K-15
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BEYOND K-15
Avenues for Lifelong Learning
onePA by the People's Association - https://www.onepa.gov.sg/
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TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) programme - https://www.imda.gov.sg/how-we-can-help/techskills-accelerator-tesa
Educating the community
Institute for Adult Learning - https://www.ial.edu.sg/
Adult Learning Collaboratory
Engaging a Dynamic Ecosystem of Enterprises, Education & Training Institutes, Educators, Researchers & Policymakers to Co-Create and Co-Produce Solutions
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Collaboratory Partners
Distributed Experimentation
Digital Capability Development for an AI-Augmented future
- co-develop a digital capability development approach - ensuring that workers are upskilled rather than deskilled, and organisations’ capacity and productivity are enhanced
New-Age Business Transformation
- rejuvenate businesses through employee empowerment and bottom-up innovation
Future-Oriented Pedagogies
- test future-oriented pedagogies that cultivate learners who are able to work with the emergent, unknown and complex.
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WHAT'S NEXT?
What's Next?
Thank you!