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Educational change for the 21st century: “Leadership from the Middle”
Citation
Hung, D. W. L., Toh, Y., Azilawati Jamaludin, Sng, G., Lim, M., Li, S., & Moo, E. (2018). Educational change for the 21st century: “Leadership from the Middle”. In T. S. Koh & D. Hung (Eds.), Leadership for change: The Singapore schools' experience (pp. 153-168). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813227323_0006
Abstract
In this chapter, we propose a hypothesis that “leadership from the middle” (LftM) facilitates the change process of the Singapore education system to stay relevant to current trends and needs while maintaining a balance between old performative (teaching to the test) and new inquiry- based, student-centred pedagogies. LftM provides a context that will help the reader to appreciate how coherent alignments can be made across the multiple layers within the system, and where school leaders, teacher leaders and champions of Curricular Innovations (CIs) take the lead from such a middle.
Date Issued
2018
ISBN
9789813227309 (print)
9789813227330 (ebook)
DOI
10.1142/9789813227323_0006