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Significantly Contributing to Student Learning and School Experiences
Teacher quality contributes significantly to student leaning and experiences in school. It is the most influential school-related factor in explaining student achievement. As a result, the Singapore education system places high importance on supporting teachers' learning so as to ensure pedagogical adaptability and effectiveness.
The Teacher Professionalism and Learning Programme researches the various acts of teaching and interrelationships that occur within, between and beyond the contexts and situations of teacher education and learning. Our approaches and foci of interest are diverse and multi-perspectival and include the following: pedagogy, teachers' and students' beliefs, identity, voice, action and agency, change, collaborative learning and partnerships in both Singapore and international contexts.
Research Questions We Seek to Solve
How do teachers learn, develop and grow?
What effective approaches and strategies for fostering career-long teacher learning can be developed from this understanding?
How do teachers examine (and eventually further improve) their own practice?
What are the enablers of teacher change?
What are some of the most important challenges that inhibit teacher change?
What are the social and emotional factors that inform teacher professionalism?
Programmatic Lines of Inquiry
1. Examining the learning experiences and professional characteristics of teachers.
2. Studying the interactions between teacher-centric factors (affects, cognition, beliefs, agency and identity) and the roles (informal and formal) that teachers play.
3. Developing teacher capacities and dispositions in designing rich learning.
4. Investigating teacher experience, wisdom and pedagogical adaptability.
Current Projects
A Study on a Model of In Situ Professional Development: Context, Conditions, and Impact
Examining Teachers' Talk and Learning within Networked Learning Communities
The Value of Aesthetic Experience in the Quality of Teaching and Learning Environments: Teachers' design and learning of aesthetically-infused inquiry-based learning
Faculty
Dr Lee Shu Shing
National Institute of Education [email protected]Shu Shing is a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. She earned her MSc. and PhD. in Information Studies from Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. ...
Appointments:
Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice
Research Scientist, National Institute of Education - Office of Education Research
Keywords: Education
Dr Pereira Andrew Joseph
National Institute of Education [email protected]Andrew Pereira is a Research Scientist with the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP). He received his MA in Applied Linguistics and PhD in English Studies from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. In 2014, he won the ...
Appointments:
Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice
Research Scientist, National Institute of Education - Office of Education Research
Keywords: Education
Dr Onishi Pamela Grace Costes
National Institute of Education [email protected]Dr. Pamela Costes Onishi is a Research Scientist (Lecturer) at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). She contributes specifically to the Teacher and Professional Learning (TPAL) research at the Cent ...
Appointments:
Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice
Research Scientist, National Institute of Education - Office of Education Research
Keywords: Education