Kenneth Paul Tan :: National University of Singapore Teaching Academy
Moral Panic and the Migrant Worker Folk Devil 7. In 1994, he obtained a First Class Honours degree in the Joint School of Economics and Politics at the University of Bristol on a Public Service Commission Overseas Merit Open Scholarship. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore's one-party dominant system and the system's durability. The Patriarchal State's Feminization of Civil Society 5. This article gives an account of a proto-service-learning course on civil society in Singapore and discusses some similarities and differences between the U.
The returning scholarship-holders are stringently assessed to join the premier Administrative Service, where they are stretched, tested and groomed to become top public-sector leaders. A much smaller and younger country, Singapore cannot afford to be paralyzed by permanent cleavages. In cultural contexts such as Singapore, where students are rarely required to critically interpret their context, this approach to learning acting advances a capacity for taking responsible action by performing creative interventions. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. This advances agency as a creative process. I design innovative curriculum and pedagogy to inculcate in my students a life-long habit of critical thinking; to sharpen their ability to engage at the intuitive, theoretical, empirical, and practical levels; and to raise confidence in their capacity to effect positive transformations in the world.
He has published in high quality international journals such as Asian Studies Review, International Political Science Review, and positions: east asia cultures critique, and has authored two books: Renaissance Singapore? It also has to do with the power and outreach of relatively low-budget independent films and the documentary genre in particular to evoke alternative histories vividly, give voice to the silenced, and channel these voices digitally into the collective cinematic and social media experience of the present. With the jubilee celebrations of 2015, the ruling party has been working hard to regain hegemony after experiencing its worst electoral losses in the 2011 general elections. Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. There has, however, been some attempt to re-balance meritocracy, bringing the egalitarian considerations back by introducing redistributive policies in a cautious shift to the left, partly no doubt in reaction to strong signals of popular displeasure in the general elections of 2011. Service learning in higher education is an American creature.
Kenneth Paul Tan :: National University of Singapore Teaching Academy
Students sit for the National Center Test for University Admissions at the University of Tokyo. Kenneth Paul Tan is an associate professor and acting dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the and see a list of open tasks. This article examines a particular acting task designed for undergraduate drama students at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, in which students devise and perform a locally based character. Since 2000, he has received more than 10 teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award 2009. The three Singapore films are modern rituals that serve to bring Singapore's national anxieties under control by subjecting female monstrosity — their grotesque embodiment — to patriarchal discipline. .
This not only offers more Singaporeans a continuous opportunity to earn qualifications; it can widen the pool of talent for an advanced and more inclusive economy. This article argues that Singapore's one-party dominant state is the result of continuous ideological work that deploys the rhetoric of pragmatism to link the notion of Singapore's impressive success and future prospects to its ability to attract global capital. Pragmatism and the Neoliberal State 4. This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's. Harnessing Talent for a Macho-Meritocratic Elite 3.
This article uncovers the strongly ideological quality in Singapore's theory and practice of pragmatism. A significant number are mercilessly removed to make way for new officers. He is an avid runner, who has travelled to a number of cities to run marathons. As both a global city and a nation-state, Singapore needs national narratives to animate the Singapore identity and provide coherent frameworks of meaning and value to orientate and motivate its citizens and their government towards the achievement of a collectively desirable future. More recently, the Singapore government rolled out to better connect education with careers and to encourage continuous lifelong learning, with the aim of enabling all Singaporeans to achieve skills mastery at any stage of their lives.
But these recent developments may be a good start. Once received we make sure it is in perfect condition and then send it to you via the Australia Post eParcel service, which includes online tracking. The Singapore Story: Censorship and Nostalgia in the Creative City 9. Would you like us to keep your Bookworld details, including delivery addresses, order history and citizenship information? First, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance, and legislative monopoly in Singapore's one-party dominant system and the system's durability. We also noticed that you have previously shopped at Bookworld.
This article interrogates the persistence of heavy-handed censorship of political films in Singapore at a time of cultural liberalisation when the state has generally shown greater tolerance for alternative political expression in theatre, the literary arts, academia and public events. Each year, Administrative Service officers are put through a thorough performance evaluation, ranked and subjected to a re-calibration of their career potential. Secondly, it tracks developments in Singapore's public administration, critically analysing the formation and transformation of meritocracy and pragmatism, two key components of the state ideology. When the former British colony became independent in 1965, it had an acute sense of its own vulnerability, not least because it lacked natural resources. It has also seen a greater sensitivity and attention to the inherent ideological contradictions and socio-economic inequalities that may erode what has been a relatively stable partnership between state and capital. In practice, meritocracy is often transformed into an ideology of inequality and elitism. It also points to a strongly pragmatic quality in the ideological negotiations that play out within the dynamics of hegemony.
Thanks for supporting an Australian owned and operated business! However, meritocracy can — and probably did — provide a successful way of. The pistol fires; the camera zooms out. But despite its prominence in representations of Singapore, the figure has divided opinion and generated debate amongst Singaporeans. Inventing and Re-inventing the Public 8. He has published in leading international journals such as Asian Studies Review, Critical Asian Studies, International Political Science Review, and positions: asia critique, and has authored two books: Renaissance Singapore? The Presence of Kenneth Paul Tan's profile does not indicate a business or promotional relationship of any kind between RelSci and Kenneth Paul Tan.
The National Arts Council condemned Ng, who was later charged with obscenity, and, along with Tham, banned indefinitely from performing in Singapore. The best of them become Permanent Secretaries administrative heads of government ministries or even cabinet ministers if eventually coopted into politics. Since 2000, he has received more than 10 teaching awards, including in 2009 the Outstanding Educator Award, the most prestigious teaching honour bestowed by the University. Second, it tracks developments in Singapore's public administration, critically analysing the formation and transformation of meritocracy and pragmatism, two key components of the state ideology. Third, it discusses developments within civil society, focusing in particular on issues related to patriarchy and feminism, hetero-normativity and gay activism, immigration and migrant worker exploitation, and the contest over history and national narratives in academia, the media, and the arts.
