School-based curriculum development in Singapore: Bottom-up perspectives of a top-down policy

Curriculum Perspectives

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-61

  Leong, Kai Ling ^b   Sim, Jasmine B y ^a   Chua, Seok Hong ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

School based curriculum development; Teachers' perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960606966     PISSN: 01597868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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