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Ho, Li-Ching; Seow, Tricia – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
This qualitative study examines how climate change scientific knowledge is framed and positioned within the Singapore and Philippines school curricula in relation to broader citizenship concepts and ideas. The findings reveal that climate change is taught in very different ways within both education systems. The Singapore case demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Qualitative Research, Citizenship
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Ho, Li-Ching; Seow, Tricia – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
In this article, the authors investigate 6 Singaporean geography teachers' understandings of climate change education. The findings indicate that the participants held very different beliefs about the primary purposes of climate change education, in spite of the highly centralized national curriculum and the unambiguous state support for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Geography Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Seow, Tricia; Ho, Li-Ching – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
This qualitative study examines what four pre-service and six practicing geography educators in Singapore schools believe to be the purpose of climate change education, and how this intersects with their beliefs about student readiness to handle controversy within climate change education. A key finding of this study indicates that the teachers'…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Geography Instruction