CCLC | Cultural Legacy and Educational Institution: An International Symposium on Chinese Schools in Southeast Asia
Event Name of event and organizer | Cultural Legacy and Educational Institution: An International Symposium on Chinese Schools in Southeast Asia, National Heritage Board, Chinese Heritage Centre, Centre for Chinese Language & Culture and NTU Chinese, School of Humanities, NTU. |
Date If held over multiple dates, please note too | 17 August 2018 (Friday) |
| Time | 9.00 a.m. - 6.00p.m. |
Venue Venue name + Unit number Insert address if outside HSS Building | HSS Conference Room (HSS-05-57) |
Registration/ Information Registration link Open to students/faculty/public/private event | https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA18071915221669 |
| Event write-up | Cultural Legacy and Educational Institution: An International Symposium on Chinese Schools in Southeast Asia
Huaxiao 华校 or Chinese-medium schools once played a historically significant role in the shaping of Singapore's society. Across the region too, they have not only provided social mobility and maintained a sense of identity among Chinese-speaking communities, but also served as notable cultural spaces in the promotion of Chinese arts and culture. Yet their roles have been much reduced in Singapore since four decades ago to a small number of Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools, whereas Malaysia has witnessed a sustained system of Chinese school and Indonesia a revival in Chinese education. It is timely to reexamine the legacy of these schools in Southeast Asia and beyond. Some of the questions to be explored in this conference include: In what ways have Chinesemedium schools in multi-ethnic societies helped to reproduce or create social structures beyond the overt curriculum and examination system, through the generation of cultural capital or building of community? What kind of diversity may be observed in the development of Chinese-medium schools over the last century, and how may the memory of these various schools be protected or safeguarded using a framework of tangible and intangible heritage?
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Speaker /s Name and designation of speakers | Professor Michael Apple |
| Speaker profile/s (if any) | Professor Michael W. Apple is an educational theorist specialized on education and power, cultural politics, curriculum theory and research, critical teaching, and the development of democratic schools. He is currently the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, where he has taught since 1970. Before completing his Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University, Apple taught in elementary and secondary schools in New Jersey, where he grew up, as well as served as the president of his teachers union. For more than three decades Apple has worked with educators, unions, dissident groups, and governments throughout the world on democratizing educational policy and practice |
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