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
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climate change education
controversial issues
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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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Qualitative Research
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