Teaching Controversial Issues in Geography: Climate Change Education in Singaporean Schools

In this article, the authors investigate 6 Singaporean geography teachers' understandings of climate change education. The findings indicate that the participants held very different beliefs about the primary purposes of climate change education, in spite of the highly centralized national curr...

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Published in:Theory and research in social education 2015-07, Vol.43 (3), p.314-344
Main Authors: Ho, Li-Ching, Seow, Tricia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate
climate change education
controversial issues
Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Environmental Education
Foreign Countries
geography education
Geography Instruction
Interviews
Knowledge Base for Teaching
National Curriculum
Qualitative Research
Singapore
Teacher Education
Teaching Methods
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Summary:In this article, the authors investigate 6 Singaporean geography teachers' understandings of climate change education. The findings indicate that the participants held very different beliefs about the primary purposes of climate change education, in spite of the highly centralized national curriculum and the unambiguous state support for the science of climate change. The findings suggest that the diversity in teachers' understandings of the purposes of climate change education and their preferred pedagogical approaches reflect some of the tensions within the larger education system in Singapore.
ISSN:0093-3104
2163-1654
DOI:10.1080/00933104.2015.1064842