Enhancing Holistic Well-Being of Children and Youth
Insights from Singapore for Research, Policy and Practice in Education
About this book series
This comprehensive book series examines key analytical, theoretical, and empirical research on the conceptualization, implementation, and consequences of educational policies and practice implementations in different contexts. This series aims to fill the gap as a must-have reference for local and international educational communities as they look ahead towards the future. It documents how Singapore has been able to create policies designed to ensure quality teaching in communities, and how the results of these policies are manifested in practice. Additionally, it considers education policy and practice from a holistic and strategic stance, from both a Singapore and a more global perspective. It also highlights how Singapore, drawing on knowledge and research done both internationally and locally, has successfully mobilized the resources and efforts to empower learning and teaching through implementing comprehensive and coherent policies.
In the short span of just over 50 years, Singapore's education system has become a high-performing Asian system in international academic performance studies, such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). A growing body of research has found that high-performing countries, such as Singapore, all have in common a set of educational policies for developing, supporting and sustaining the ongoing learning and development of teachers, school leaders and students. These countries not only prepare individual educators well, but they also have policies that enable and empower teachers to share their expertise within and across schools so that the system as a whole becomes highly efficient and effective. They cultivate innovative practices through educational and teaching policies, and their policy-practice relationship is robust enough to enable the overall system to continuously improve.
Singapore education as a brand, ‘SG Education’, is well positioned to market Singapore in the international arena. Learning and policy developments in Singapore, and from a Singapore perspective, will be of great interest to policymakers and practitioners. Readers will be further interested in the primary focus of the series which includes educational policy formulation and implementation, school and systems leadership, teacher policies and school organizational policies. Crucially, each book critically examines the contexts and interfaces between educational policy, research, and practice that empowers teaching and learning.
The book series will include volumes that compare and synthesize the Singapore experience with international experience, allowing for global applicability. The book series will also accept edited books and monographs on specific topics that examine Singapore education in terms of educational policies, policy enactment and practice.
Each book in the series will include, but not be limited to, the following structure:
• A state-of-the-art review of research and knowledge on the topics covered, and an introduction of the purpose and the key issues of the book• Both international and local experience in the specified topics, presented in a series of empirical studies or theoretical/conceptual pieces
• Comparison and synthesis of education policy, and its applicability to other systems
• Directions for future research and practice
Please contact Grace Ma (e-mail: grace.ma@springer.com) for submitting book proposals for this series.
