Moving Beyond Grades to Purposeful Learning : Lessons from Singaporean Research

David Wei Loong Hung

ISBN 10: 9819947049 / ISBN 13: 9789819947041

Published by Springer Nature Singapore, Springer Nature Singapore, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores future directions in Singaporean education as it moves beyond its historically formative goals of survival, efficiency and performance, and its emphasis on grades and formal credentialing. It examines the future of education via the 4Life framework, a four-form model for purposeful learning centered around social-emotional regulation and the well-being of the individual learner: Life-long learning, the learning that occurs over a learner's lifespan; Life-deep learning, a deep understanding of learned content and adaptive expertise; Life-wide learning, learning in multiple contexts besides the school environment; and Life-wise learning, learning which focuses on the learner's values, morals, character and historical empathy. This book also illustrates how purposeful learning serves to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, dispositions and competencies they need to thrive as adaptive workers in the economy of the future.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moving Beyond Grades to Purposeful Learning : Lessons from Singaporean Research
• Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore, Springer Nature Singapore
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9819947049
• ISBN 13: 9789819947041
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 17D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 477 grams

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Synopsis

This book explores future directions in Singaporean education as it moves beyond its historically formative goals of survival, efficiency and performance, and its emphasis on grades and formal credentialing. It examines the future of education via the 4Life framework, a four-form model for purposeful learning centered around social-emotional regulation and the well-being of the individual learner: Life-long learning, the learning that occurs over a learner's lifespan; Life-deep learning, a deep understanding of learned content and adaptive expertise; Life-wide learning, learning in multiple contexts besides the school environment; and Life-wise learning, learning which focuses on the learner's values, morals, character and historical empathy. This book also illustrates how purposeful learning serves to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, dispositions and competencies they need to thrive as adaptive workers in the economy of the future.

About the Author

Professor David Hung was Dean of the Office of Education Research. He is a Professor at the National Institute of Education with teaching and research interests in learning, in particular, social-cultural orientations to cognition and communities of practice. He was also Head of EduLab at the Office of Education Research, an initiative designed to surface and spread ground-up Information and Communication Technology-based pedagogical innovations. He was the former Head of Educational Research Administration and Communication, Office of Education Research. He is currently a contributing editor of Educational Technology.

Professor Hung has conducted research in Learning and Instructional Technologies, Constructivism and Social Constructivism, Learning in Communities of Practice, and other related topics in the field, in recent years. Professor Hung's publications are internationally known, and he is well-recognised in the learning sciences.