Dr Dennis Kwek is Centre Director, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, and Associate Dean (Strategic Engagement), Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A Senior Research Scientist with over 25 years of research experience in the UK and Singapore, his research interests include system studies in education, policy research, classroom pedagogies, sociology and philosophy of education, and teacher professional development. He is currently leading National Institute of Education’s CORE Research Programme (2004-present), a multi-million-dollar government-funded large-scale baseline suite of empirical studies into Singaporean classroom pedagogies.
This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations. It documents the change journey of Specialized Schools and Future Schools in Singapore with a view to understand the key tenets that enable school wide change and reform.