S Gopinathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5848335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Gopinathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopinathan |
| SIGNATURE | GOPINATHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Universitising teacher education in Singapore: From the TTC to the NIE
Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation: The case of Singapore's universities
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 …
Pisa and high-performing education systems: Explaining Singapore’s education success
Singapore’s remarkable performance in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has placed it among the world’s high-performing education systems (HPES). In the literature on HPES, its ‘secret formula’ for education success is explained in terms of teacher quality, school leadership, system characteristics and educational reform. This article offers an alternative explanation for the education success of Singapore and, in so doing, qu…
Challenging and co-opting globalisation: Singapore's strategies in higher education
Since its independence in 1965, Singapore has adopted a developmental state orientation and has placed a strong emphasis on education to meet its socio-economic development needs. In line with its aspirations to be a regional education hub, the Singapore higher education system hosts a number of prestigious institutions and international partnerships. In recent years, research and development spending has been ramped up, specialist research centr…
The evolution of school leadership policy and practice in Singapore: Responses to changing socio‐economic and political contexts ( insurgents , implementers , innovators )
The nature, quality and preparation of school leaders are once more at the centre of policy and practice decisions about education. But it is important to understand that school leadership, as both a historical and cultural construction, is intimately related to changing socio‐political realities. In the case of Singapore, the historical evolution from British colony to modern post‐industrial nation offered radically different contexts for educat…
Language, Capital, Culture: Critical Studies and Education in Singapore
Singapore has been taken by many researchers as a fascinating living language policy and planning laboratory. Language and education policy in Singapore has been pivotal not only to the establishment and growth of schooling, but to the very project of nation building. Since their inception, ‘mother tongue’ policies have been established with two explicit goals. Firstly there is the development and training of human and intellectual capital for th…
Globalisation, the Singapore developmental state and education policy: A thesis revisited
In this article I revisit and extend arguments made in 1996 and 1997 about the relationship between globalisation, the state and education policy. I was particularly concerned then to see how a small but strong state, Singapore, was responding in the education arena to globalisation. I also wished to draw attention to the literature on the high rates of economic growth achieved by the East Asian ‘tigers’ in which education, training and capital–l…
After effectiveness: New directions in the Singapore school system
The educational reforms being enacted in Singapore can be considered exceptional in that they are being undertaken within a highly effective system. We explore these reforms using Brown and Lauder's ideal-typical analysis of 'neo-Fordist' and 'post-Fordist' models of national economic development. Singapore's reforms have been extensive, ranging from changes to early childhood education through to tertiary education. We examine the nature of stat…
Language, Society and Education in Singapore: Issues and Trends
While changes in the demographic, economic, socio-political, linguistic and education aspects of life in Singapore in the last fifteen years have been fairly well documented by specialists in the separate fields, there is clearly a need for a state-of-the-art volume on the inter-relationship of developments in language, society and education. This book aims to fulfil that need. The book is distinguished by four characteristics: it deals not only …
Religious education in a secular state: The Singapore experience
The Revival of Values Education
Being and Becoming: Education for Values in Singapore
Changes in Tamil Language Acquisition and Usage in Singapore: A Case of Subtractive Bilingualism
Moral education in a plural society: A singapore case study
Singapore ́s Language Policies: Strategies for a Plural Society
Globalisation, the Singapore developmental state and education policy: A thesis revisited
In this article I revisit and extend arguments made in 1996 and 1997 about the relationship between globalisation, the state and education policy. I was particularly concerned then to see how a small but strong state, Singapore, was responding in the education arena to globalisation. I also wished to draw attention to the literature on the high rates of economic growth achieved by the East Asian ‘tigers’ in which education, training and capital–l…
Pisa and high-performing education systems: Explaining Singapore’s education success
Singapore’s remarkable performance in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has placed it among the world’s high-performing education systems (HPES). In the literature on HPES, its ‘secret formula’ for education success is explained in terms of teacher quality, school leadership, system characteristics and educational reform. This article offers an alternative explanation for the education success of Singapore and, in so doing, qu…
Challenging and co-opting globalisation: Singapore's strategies in higher education
Since its independence in 1965, Singapore has adopted a developmental state orientation and has placed a strong emphasis on education to meet its socio-economic development needs. In line with its aspirations to be a regional education hub, the Singapore higher education system hosts a number of prestigious institutions and international partnerships. In recent years, research and development spending has been ramped up, specialist research centr…
After effectiveness: New directions in the Singapore school system
The educational reforms being enacted in Singapore can be considered exceptional in that they are being undertaken within a highly effective system. We explore these reforms using Brown and Lauder's ideal-typical analysis of 'neo-Fordist' and 'post-Fordist' models of national economic development. Singapore's reforms have been extensive, ranging from changes to early childhood education through to tertiary education. We examine the nature of stat…
Religious education in a secular state: The Singapore experience
Moral education in a plural society: A singapore case study
Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation: The case of Singapore's universities
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 …
The evolution of school leadership policy and practice in Singapore: Responses to changing socio‐economic and political contexts ( insurgents , implementers , innovators )
The nature, quality and preparation of school leaders are once more at the centre of policy and practice decisions about education. But it is important to understand that school leadership, as both a historical and cultural construction, is intimately related to changing socio‐political realities. In the case of Singapore, the historical evolution from British colony to modern post‐industrial nation offered radically different contexts for educat…
Changes in Tamil Language Acquisition and Usage in Singapore: A Case of Subtractive Bilingualism
Singapore ́s Language Policies: Strategies for a Plural Society
Moral education in a plural society: A singapore case study
Changes in Tamil Language Acquisition and Usage in Singapore: A Case of Subtractive Bilingualism
The Revival of Values Education
Being and Becoming: Education for Values in Singapore
Religious education in a secular state: The Singapore experience
Language, Society and Education in Singapore: Issues and Trends
While changes in the demographic, economic, socio-political, linguistic and education aspects of life in Singapore in the last fifteen years have been fairly well documented by specialists in the separate fields, there is clearly a need for a state-of-the-art volume on the inter-relationship of developments in language, society and education. This book aims to fulfil that need. The book is distinguished by four characteristics: it deals not only …
After effectiveness: New directions in the Singapore school system
The educational reforms being enacted in Singapore can be considered exceptional in that they are being undertaken within a highly effective system. We explore these reforms using Brown and Lauder's ideal-typical analysis of 'neo-Fordist' and 'post-Fordist' models of national economic development. Singapore's reforms have been extensive, ranging from changes to early childhood education through to tertiary education. We examine the nature of stat…
Language, Capital, Culture: Critical Studies and Education in Singapore
Singapore has been taken by many researchers as a fascinating living language policy and planning laboratory. Language and education policy in Singapore has been pivotal not only to the establishment and growth of schooling, but to the very project of nation building. Since their inception, ‘mother tongue’ policies have been established with two explicit goals. Firstly there is the development and training of human and intellectual capital for th…
Globalisation, the Singapore developmental state and education policy: A thesis revisited
In this article I revisit and extend arguments made in 1996 and 1997 about the relationship between globalisation, the state and education policy. I was particularly concerned then to see how a small but strong state, Singapore, was responding in the education arena to globalisation. I also wished to draw attention to the literature on the high rates of economic growth achieved by the East Asian ‘tigers’ in which education, training and capital–l…
The evolution of school leadership policy and practice in Singapore: Responses to changing socio‐economic and political contexts ( insurgents , implementers , innovators )
The nature, quality and preparation of school leaders are once more at the centre of policy and practice decisions about education. But it is important to understand that school leadership, as both a historical and cultural construction, is intimately related to changing socio‐political realities. In the case of Singapore, the historical evolution from British colony to modern post‐industrial nation offered radically different contexts for educat…
Challenging and co-opting globalisation: Singapore's strategies in higher education
Since its independence in 1965, Singapore has adopted a developmental state orientation and has placed a strong emphasis on education to meet its socio-economic development needs. In line with its aspirations to be a regional education hub, the Singapore higher education system hosts a number of prestigious institutions and international partnerships. In recent years, research and development spending has been ramped up, specialist research centr…
Pisa and high-performing education systems: Explaining Singapore’s education success
Singapore’s remarkable performance in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has placed it among the world’s high-performing education systems (HPES). In the literature on HPES, its ‘secret formula’ for education success is explained in terms of teacher quality, school leadership, system characteristics and educational reform. This article offers an alternative explanation for the education success of Singapore and, in so doing, qu…
Hybridity, the developmental state and globalisation: The case of Singapore's universities
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 …
Universitising teacher education in Singapore: From the TTC to the NIE
Political science (14 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (5 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Law (5 works)