Yeow-Tong Chia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yeow-Tong Chia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yeow-Tong |
| FAMILY NAME | Chia |
| SIGNATURE | CHIA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9866-8644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reflection on China’s higher vocational education entrance examination
The higher vocational education entrance examination is crucial not only for improving China’s vocational education system but also for promoting economic development. Although China has placed an unprecedented emphasis on reforming the higher vocational education entrance examination in recent years, this reform is still fraught with many challenges. Very few studies have attempted to draw lessons from history for China’s current reform of the h…
Asia Literacy as Global Citizenship Education
Asia literacy is a longstanding policy priority in Australian schooling, yet little empirical research has examined how it is taught in classrooms. This qualitative case study investigates how Asia literacy was taught within a primary school’s broader commitment to global citizenship education (GCE), attending to educational purpose, content, and pedagogical relationships. Drawing on classroom observations, interviews, and curricular materials, a…
Decolonizing research imagination
Understanding educational policy transfer
This article examines the process of China’s borrowing of the Japanese vocational education model from 1895 to 1922 from the perspective of educational policy transfer. This study serves as a unique example in educational policy transfer research where historical sources offer the possibility of testing the applicability of the Contextual Map of Cross-national Attraction model. It elucidates some of the analytical limitations discovered by this s…
Rethinking civic education in the digital era
This study clarifies the evolving notion of civic education that resulted from technological advancement. We investigated Singaporean young people's views on civic education by contrasting the roles of schools, families and friends, and social media in shaping their understanding. Through focus groups, we found that there are contentions on the definitions, approaches, and meanings of civic education. We conclude that in view of the inevitable di…
Education and #StopAsianHate
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed an increase and amplification of anti-Asian racism and violence across the globe. Stop AAPI Hate1 in the United States and the COVID-19 Racism Incident Report2 in Australia have documented this rising overt racism and violence against Asians. The killings of 6 Asian women in the United States in 2021, which was racially motivated, highlighted and brought this racial injustice to the fore
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore by Kevin Blackburn and Zonglun Wu
Reviewed by: Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore by Kevin Blackburn and Zonglun Wu Jason Ng Sze Chieh and Yeow-Tong Chia Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore. by KEVIN BLACKBURN and ZONGLUN WU. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 201pp, ISBN 978-1-138-39165-9 Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore aims to examine the process of decolonization of the school history curricu…
Citizenship and Education in China
Education has been highly valued throughout Chinese history, as shown by the Han Dynasty tradition of imperial examinations (科举) on Confucian classics. These examinations served two functions: “sel
Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation
This article revisits Gopinathan’s and Lee’s and Gopinathan’s arguments about the relationship and role of the developmental state and education in the era of globalisation. The paper first discusses the role and impact of the developmental state and globalisation on Singapore’s higher education since 1990 to set the context. Drawing upon documentary evidence and interviews with four key academic staff at the National University of Singapore and …
Singapore General Election 2015 and the Role of Citizenship Education
This article explores the role of education, in particular citizenship education, in shaping the Singapore electorate. An understanding of the history of citizenship education helps to shed light on the contemporary political culture in Singapore. The extent to which democratic citizenship education has been taught in schools since 1958 is explored. Singapore’s citizenship education has consistently stressed the duties and responsibilities of cit…
Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State
This book explores the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state. The book provides a historical study of citizenship education in Singapore, whereby a comparative study
The Elusive Goal of Nation Building
The term ‘Asian values’ became popular in the political discourse in the 1980s and 1990s. The most vocal proponents of Asian values are Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir and their deputies and government officials, as well as post-Tiananmen Chinese leaders. Most notable of all these three strands of the Asian values debate is the ‘Singapore School’, which ‘comprises leaders who have articulated a defence of the Singapore regime, ei…
The Elusive Goal of Nation Building
The term ‘Asian values’ became popular in the political discourse in the 1980s and 1990s. The most vocal proponents of Asian values are Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir and their deputies and government officials, as well as post-Tiananmen Chinese leaders. Most notable of all these three strands of the Asian values debate is the ‘Singapore School’, which ‘comprises leaders who have articulated a defence of the Singapore regime, ei…
Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation
This article revisits Gopinathan’s and Lee’s and Gopinathan’s arguments about the relationship and role of the developmental state and education in the era of globalisation. The paper first discusses the role and impact of the developmental state and globalisation on Singapore’s higher education since 1990 to set the context. Drawing upon documentary evidence and interviews with four key academic staff at the National University of Singapore and …
Understanding educational policy transfer
This article examines the process of China’s borrowing of the Japanese vocational education model from 1895 to 1922 from the perspective of educational policy transfer. This study serves as a unique example in educational policy transfer research where historical sources offer the possibility of testing the applicability of the Contextual Map of Cross-national Attraction model. It elucidates some of the analytical limitations discovered by this s…
Singapore General Election 2015 and the Role of Citizenship Education
This article explores the role of education, in particular citizenship education, in shaping the Singapore electorate. An understanding of the history of citizenship education helps to shed light on the contemporary political culture in Singapore. The extent to which democratic citizenship education has been taught in schools since 1958 is explored. Singapore’s citizenship education has consistently stressed the duties and responsibilities of cit…
The Elusive Goal of Nation Building
The term ‘Asian values’ became popular in the political discourse in the 1980s and 1990s. The most vocal proponents of Asian values are Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir and their deputies and government officials, as well as post-Tiananmen Chinese leaders. Most notable of all these three strands of the Asian values debate is the ‘Singapore School’, which ‘comprises leaders who have articulated a defence of the Singapore regime, ei…
Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State
This book explores the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state. The book provides a historical study of citizenship education in Singapore, whereby a comparative study
Singapore General Election 2015 and the Role of Citizenship Education
This article explores the role of education, in particular citizenship education, in shaping the Singapore electorate. An understanding of the history of citizenship education helps to shed light on the contemporary political culture in Singapore. The extent to which democratic citizenship education has been taught in schools since 1958 is explored. Singapore’s citizenship education has consistently stressed the duties and responsibilities of cit…
Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation
This article revisits Gopinathan’s and Lee’s and Gopinathan’s arguments about the relationship and role of the developmental state and education in the era of globalisation. The paper first discusses the role and impact of the developmental state and globalisation on Singapore’s higher education since 1990 to set the context. Drawing upon documentary evidence and interviews with four key academic staff at the National University of Singapore and …
Citizenship and Education in China
Education has been highly valued throughout Chinese history, as shown by the Han Dynasty tradition of imperial examinations (科举) on Confucian classics. These examinations served two functions: “sel
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore by Kevin Blackburn and Zonglun Wu
Reviewed by: Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore by Kevin Blackburn and Zonglun Wu Jason Ng Sze Chieh and Yeow-Tong Chia Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore. by KEVIN BLACKBURN and ZONGLUN WU. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 201pp, ISBN 978-1-138-39165-9 Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore aims to examine the process of decolonization of the school history curricu…
Rethinking civic education in the digital era
This study clarifies the evolving notion of civic education that resulted from technological advancement. We investigated Singaporean young people's views on civic education by contrasting the roles of schools, families and friends, and social media in shaping their understanding. Through focus groups, we found that there are contentions on the definitions, approaches, and meanings of civic education. We conclude that in view of the inevitable di…
Education and #StopAsianHate
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed an increase and amplification of anti-Asian racism and violence across the globe. Stop AAPI Hate1 in the United States and the COVID-19 Racism Incident Report2 in Australia have documented this rising overt racism and violence against Asians. The killings of 6 Asian women in the United States in 2021, which was racially motivated, highlighted and brought this racial injustice to the fore
Decolonizing research imagination
Understanding educational policy transfer
This article examines the process of China’s borrowing of the Japanese vocational education model from 1895 to 1922 from the perspective of educational policy transfer. This study serves as a unique example in educational policy transfer research where historical sources offer the possibility of testing the applicability of the Contextual Map of Cross-national Attraction model. It elucidates some of the analytical limitations discovered by this s…
Reflection on China’s higher vocational education entrance examination
The higher vocational education entrance examination is crucial not only for improving China’s vocational education system but also for promoting economic development. Although China has placed an unprecedented emphasis on reforming the higher vocational education entrance examination in recent years, this reform is still fraught with many challenges. Very few studies have attempted to draw lessons from history for China’s current reform of the h…
Asia Literacy as Global Citizenship Education
Asia literacy is a longstanding policy priority in Australian schooling, yet little empirical research has examined how it is taught in classrooms. This qualitative case study investigates how Asia literacy was taught within a primary school’s broader commitment to global citizenship education (GCE), attending to educational purpose, content, and pedagogical relationships. Drawing on classroom observations, interviews, and curricular materials, a…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Citizenship (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · China (4 works)