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Book Chapter: Curriculum, Leadership and Religion in Singapore Schools: How a Secular Government Engineers Social Harmony and the ‘State Interest’
Title | Curriculum, Leadership and Religion in Singapore Schools: How a Secular Government Engineers Social Harmony and the ‘State Interest’ |
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Keywords | Academic and islamic education Background Curriculum Economic growth Government Islamic religious schools Madrasahs Multi-ethnic National education PSLE Religion Religious education School leadership Secular schools Secularization of schools Singapore Social compact Social harmony State and school context to religion State educational reforms and religion State interest Twenty-first century knowledge-based economy Twenty-first century skills |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Springer |
Citation | Curriculum, Leadership and Religion in Singapore Schools: How a Secular Government Engineers Social Harmony and the ‘State Interest’. In Chapman, JD ... (et al) (Eds.), International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools, p. 533-551. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This chapter analyses the place of religion across the landscape of Singapore school curricula, leadership and policy making. In so doing, it first provides a social, political, economic and demographic context to Singapore as a small multi-ethnic, multi-faith island republic. Its strongly authoritarian and secular government prioritizes the twin goals of social harmony and a workforce equipped with the skills to be a leading global twenty-first century, knowledge-based economy. Education is seen instrumentally by the government as a crucial vehicle to meeting both goals. Thus, the central argument is that for a large majority of the 360 schools in the system, there is no place for religion in the curriculum, since it is regarded as potentially divisive to social harmony; rather, social, moral and citizenship (National) education are emphasized for their apparent greater congruence with the government’s twin goals. However, such government policy creates tensions for the Malay-Muslim minority, some of whom prefer their children to be educated in madrasahs, of which there are currently six. A dichotomy thus exists for such schools between the desire for an Islamic religious education and the government’s priority for a modern academic curriculum. The chapter identifies the various ways in which the government manages such tensions to engineer the ‘state interest’, and the premium placed on skilful leadership at all levels to navigate and finesse the sensitive boundaries between faith and state. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198944 |
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dc.contributor.author | Dimmock, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hairon, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tan, CY | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-21T09:07:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-21T09:07:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Curriculum, Leadership and Religion in Singapore Schools: How a Secular Government Engineers Social Harmony and the ‘State Interest’. In Chapman, JD ... (et al) (Eds.), International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools, p. 533-551. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789401789714 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198944 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter analyses the place of religion across the landscape of Singapore school curricula, leadership and policy making. In so doing, it first provides a social, political, economic and demographic context to Singapore as a small multi-ethnic, multi-faith island republic. Its strongly authoritarian and secular government prioritizes the twin goals of social harmony and a workforce equipped with the skills to be a leading global twenty-first century, knowledge-based economy. Education is seen instrumentally by the government as a crucial vehicle to meeting both goals. Thus, the central argument is that for a large majority of the 360 schools in the system, there is no place for religion in the curriculum, since it is regarded as potentially divisive to social harmony; rather, social, moral and citizenship (National) education are emphasized for their apparent greater congruence with the government’s twin goals. However, such government policy creates tensions for the Malay-Muslim minority, some of whom prefer their children to be educated in madrasahs, of which there are currently six. A dichotomy thus exists for such schools between the desire for an Islamic religious education and the government’s priority for a modern academic curriculum. The chapter identifies the various ways in which the government manages such tensions to engineer the ‘state interest’, and the premium placed on skilful leadership at all levels to navigate and finesse the sensitive boundaries between faith and state. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Springer | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools | - |
dc.subject | Academic and islamic education | - |
dc.subject | Background | - |
dc.subject | Curriculum | - |
dc.subject | Economic growth | - |
dc.subject | Government | - |
dc.subject | Islamic religious schools | - |
dc.subject | Madrasahs | - |
dc.subject | Multi-ethnic | - |
dc.subject | National education | - |
dc.subject | PSLE | - |
dc.subject | Religion | - |
dc.subject | Religious education | - |
dc.subject | School leadership | - |
dc.subject | Secular schools | - |
dc.subject | Secularization of schools | - |
dc.subject | Singapore | - |
dc.subject | Social compact | - |
dc.subject | Social harmony | - |
dc.subject | State and school context to religion | - |
dc.subject | State educational reforms and religion | - |
dc.subject | State interest | - |
dc.subject | Twenty-first century knowledge-based economy | - |
dc.subject | Twenty-first century skills | - |
dc.title | Curriculum, Leadership and Religion in Singapore Schools: How a Secular Government Engineers Social Harmony and the ‘State Interest’ | en_US |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Tan, CY: tancy@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-94-017-8972-1_31 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85031426912 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 230364 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 533 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 551 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Dordrecht | - |