This chapter critically examines two main lines of research in controversial issues
instruction:(1) contextual factors affecting the teaching of controversial topics; and (2) …

The present study examined Israeli secondary school teachers' perceptions of global
citizenship education (GCE), concentrating on the socio-economic makeup of the schools' …

In this article, the authors investigate 6 Singaporean geography teachers' understandings of
climate change education. The findings indicate that the participants held very different …

Using Singapore as a case study, this paper examines how the discourses of democratic
elitism and meritocracy help allocate different citizen roles to students and define the nature …

Background/Context Research indicates that across democratic societies, teachers face
numerous intellectual and emotional challenges when handling controversial topics in the …

This qualitative study examines what four pre-service and six practicing geography
educators in Singapore schools believe to be the purpose of climate change education, and …

While much of the critical scholarship around elite schooling has focused on the students
who attend elite institutions, their social class locations, privileged habituses and cultural …

In concert with Singapore's ambitions of a global city well-engineered to the human capital
needs of the transnational knowledge economy, its Ministry of Education (MOE) has in …

Based on the notion that philosophical assumptions and educational aims are important
factors that gear educational processes, this study focuses on the ways in which teachers' …

This paper uses the concept of stories of peoplehood to examine how the Singapore
government has constructed a story of harmony and to consider how this story has …