Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Singapore

Dr. Johannah Soo lectures in Consumer Food Sciences at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has more than 25 years of teaching experience from secondary to tertiary levels, specialising in the field of sustainable consumption, nutrition and food science education. Her training in psychological assessment and measurement from her MEd also brings expertise in attitude scale and questionnaire design. Johannah’s research interest includes examining food-related behaviours and attitudes of consumers, especially in measuring societal resilience in the event of food shortage crisis, global childhood and the integration of STEM education into Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum.  Nanthini Karthikeyan is an Assistant Manager at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). She is currently undertaking research on Workplace Learning and Competency-based Education. She previously worked as a Research Assistant in the National Institute of Education at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has varied working experience in research projects like financial literacy, standard spoken Tamil and student perceptions. Her research interests include student engagement, student-teacher interaction, classroom language and workplace learning  Kam Ming Lim is the Registrar and an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In his previous position as Associate Dean, he led the development and revamp of NIE teacher education programmes.  His research expertise includes teacher education, prosocial behaviour, and help-seeking behaviour. He was also the President, Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (2018-2021), Council member, World Education Research Association (2015-2019), and President, Educational Research Association of Singapore (2015-2019). The Singapore government conferred him the Public Administration Medal in 2015.  Clare Bartholomaeus is a Research Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her key research interests include gender, diversity, and children/young people. She has published widely in the areas of education, gender studies, health, and family studies. She is author of the books Transgender people and education (with Damien Riggs, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Home and away: Mothers and babies in institutional spaces (with Kathleen Connellan, Clemence Due, and Damien Riggs, Lexington Books, 2021).  Nicola Yelland is the Professor of Early Childhood Studies in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her teaching and research interests are related to transformative pedagogies and the use of new technologies in school and community contexts. She has worked in East Asia and examined the culture and curriculum of school settings. Nicola’s work engages with educational issues with regard to varying social, economic and political conditions and thus requires multidisciplinary perspectives. Nicola effectively links research with practice so that her audience are able to critically explore the nexus of theory and practice.     

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter  2. Timetabling and routines.- Chapter 3. Pedagogical encounters.- Chapter 4. School engagement and orientations to success.- Chapter 5. School belonging and wellbeing.- Chapter 6. Activities outside of school.- Chapter 7. Synthesis.