Diversifying Schools: Systemic Catalysts for Educational Innovations in Singapore [Paperback]

This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations. It documents the change journey of Specialized Schools and Future Schools in Singapore with a view to understand the key tenets that enable school wide change and reform. The intents for change and reform are to anchor the education system to the basic foundations and principles of education and yet enable the system as a whole to be malleable to change and globalization. It shows how Singapore enables diversity within a structured environment through innovations in Specialized and Future Schools, and highlights the systemic rationale behind various efforts in Specialized and Future Schools and the kinds of adaptations schools have made to leverage structures and make adjustments for their contexts.  Section One: Case studies of Diversified Adoption of Innovation.- Chapter 1 Creating sustainable levers for ICT integration: A development trajectory of an ICT-enriched school.- Chapter 2 Nurturing maker dispositions among children with open-source tools: a case study of a junior high school in Singapore.- Chapter 3 Scaling Community, Conditions, Culture and Carryovers through Apprenticing and Ecological Leadership: The SCAEL Model.- Chapter 4 Learning Initiatives for the Future of Education (LIFE): It takes a Village to enable Research Practice Nexus.- Section Two: Diversified Changes from the School View.- Chapter 5 An Exploration of Contextual Factors in Enacting Making-Centered Learning Programmes in Singapore Schools.- Chapter 6 School-based Niche Programmes in Singapore.- Chapter 7 Exploring out-of-classroom structural affordances for learning: A case study of a co-curricular activity.- Chapter 8 Fostering school-wide knowledge building practice and culture: The realities of leadership by the middle managers through network.- Section Three: Diversified Changes from the Systems View.- Chapter 9 School to School Networkslãa