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Singapore Society in Transition, Really?

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Managing Chineseness

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While ECI corporate representatives offer insight into dispositional outcomes on the economic forefront, teachers form a good sample as the core professionals that socialize other professions. In the extension of the concept to a larger segment of Chinese Singaporean professionals, teachers thus formed the sample for statistical testing. Policy and theoretical implications were drawn from the integration of qualitative ECI data, and statistical data collected of teaching professionals. For this purpose, typologies of teacher dispositions and practice will be presented in this Chapter 7 in terms of whether change potential exists for dispositions (Change Embodied, Change Capable, Change Aspiring, and Change Disinclined).

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Lee, D. (2017). Singapore Society in Transition, Really?. In: Managing Chineseness. Frontiers of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58258-4_7

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