Global Voices in Education Ruth Wong Memorial Lectures /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tan, Oon Seng (Editor), Seng, Seok Hoon (Editor), Wong, Hee Ong (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Teaching.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

This book brings together selected lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education. The lectures represent the powerful ideas seeded by Dr Wong and address the challenges of education in Singapore’s journey from a textbook case of poo...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Prologue
• 2 Introduction
• 3 Some thoughts about teaching and learning
• 4 The concept of educational disadvantage and some implications for the classroom teacher
• 5 Utilization of new knowledge and application of new ideas in education: A discussion of the vitalization of education as a profession and discipline
• 6 Education and the changing economic and industrial order: An international perspective
• 7 Research and the improvement of teaching
• 8 Recent conceptions of children's learning: Implications for classroom practice
• 9 Measuring and monitoring educational achievement
• 10 Engaging children's minds: innovative research and practice
• 11 A personal philosophy of education
• 12 The professional education of teachers
• 13 The timeless teacher: Contemporary research and ancient models
• 14 The value of principled eclecticism in education reform: 1965 and 2005
• 15 Schooling today: Teaching competence, creativity and compassion
• 16 Mediated learning experience (MLE) strategies and children's cognitive plasticity
• 17 Epilogue.