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The Development of a Future-Oriented Citizenship Curriculum in Singapore: Convergence of Character and Citizenship Education and Curriculum 2015

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Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum

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Globalization has become a worldwide agenda for national development, and efforts to build the capacity of students as future knowledge workers are apparent in many education reforms. Notably, much of social capital includes the “soft skills” and “twenty-first century skills”, such as creative and inventive thinking; information, interactive and communication skills; civic literacy, global awareness and cross-cultural skills. The Singapore Ministry of Education has announced the introduction of C2015, a new curriculum that would develop such attributes as the “Confident Person”, “Self-directed Learner”, “Active Contributor”, and “Concerned Citizen”. Significantly, a new curricular initiative, Character and Citizenship Education is being configured. This acts as a ‘prototype’ of the future-oriented citizenship education, with an emphasis on the significance of individual initiatives and the intellectual capital of citizens. This paper reviews the development of the citizenship education curriculum in Singapore, and analyses how the citizenship education agenda merge with the C2015 agenda.

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    Christine Kim-Eng Lee

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Lee, W.O. (2013). The Development of a Future-Oriented Citizenship Curriculum in Singapore: Convergence of Character and Citizenship Education and Curriculum 2015. In: Deng, Z., Gopinathan, S., Lee, CE. (eds) Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum. Education Innovation Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-57-4_14

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