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Engendering a culture of thinking in a culture of performativity: the challenge of mediating tensions in the Singaporean educational system

Mohammad Akshir Ab KadirFaculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 227-246 | Received 03 Feb 2015, Accepted 19 Jan 2016, Published online: 04 Mar 2016

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Yew-Jin Lee. (2023) Job, career and calling: A teacher’s work orientation is/as discursive work during research interviewing. Oxford Review of Education 49:6, pages 749-763.
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Jina Ro. (2022) Redefining the meaning of teaching in the era of (post-) performativity: the voices of Singaporean teachers. Oxford Review of Education 48:5, pages 642-658.
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Richard Poole. (2022) Perceptions of performativity in English Further Education. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 27:1, pages 148-172.
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Soon Koh Poh. (2021) English language teachers’ appropriation of tools in the Singapore classrooms: a socio-cultural analysis. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 41:4, pages 740-753.
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Magnus Frostenson & Hans Englund. (2020) Teachers, performative techniques and professional values: how performativity becomes humanistic through interplay mechanisms. Cambridge Journal of Education 50:6, pages 695-710.
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Yew-Jin Lee. (2021) Investigating teachers’ work in Singapore from interviews: An analysis based on Discursive Psychology. Asia Pacific Education Review 23:1, pages 115-129.
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Eleanore Hargreaves & Dalia Elhawary. (2021) Children’s experiences of agency when learning English in the classroom of a collectivist culture. System 98, pages 102476.
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