Singaporeans carry a label unique to them for life: their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) T-scores. Singapore has one of the most competitive education systems in the world. Students are scored, ranked, and sorted from an early age and at various points of their educational journey. Due to the high stakes nature of the […]

  Hodkinson-Williams and Trotter (2018) utilized Fraser’s (2005) social justice framework to evaluate the impact of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OER) in providing affordable access to culturally relevant education to all. Fraser perceives social justice as “parity of participation” (2005, p. 73), as both an outcome where “all the relevant social […]

Thus far, in this course, I’ve learnt many new theories and approaches, such as instrumentalism, essentialism, post-humanism, transhumanism and constructivism, among others. More importantly, I’ve learnt to question rationales. I started this block with a post on my ideal learning space. After completing this block’s core readings, and reflecting on my reading from the previous […]

Bayne, Gallagher and Lamb (2014) suggest that “the material campus continues to be a symbolically and materially significant mooring” for students (p. 581). In my previous post, I said that I do not consider myself to be a student at University of Edinburgh. I thought I’d have a little fun with this post as I […]

  Note to Huw: I’m going to use APA instead of Harvard for my citations and reference list. I hope you are okay with that. After nearly 2 decades of using APA, I find it cumbersome to learn a new format. It really slows me down and raises my anxiety. My space for IDEL has […]

The classroom is the bus. As mentioned in my previous post on my ideal learning space, the classroom needs to be comfortable, flexible and individualised. The first thing any participant of a bus tour judges is the conditions of the bus. The seats should be comfortable. A participant should be able to adjust his or […]

I am a blessed human being. I am at a point in my life where I have an office, which I spend very little time in thanks to the ongoing Covid pandemic, and my own study. Both my office and study are air-conditioned and have large tables and ergonomic chairs. Yet, I spend most of […]