History education and the construction of national identity in Singapore, 1945-2000

History Education and National Identity in East Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 203-225

  Boon, Goh Chor ^a   Gopinathan, Saravanan ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b The Educational Research Association   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920831190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203955369     Document Type: Chapter

References (40)

1. Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee, eds. 2003. New Terrains in Southeast Asian History. Singapore: Centre for International Studies, Ohio University and Singapore University Press.
2. Apple, M. And Smith, L. C. 1991. The Politics of the Textbook. London: Routledge.
3. Blackburn, K. 2000. "The Collective Memory of the Sook Ching Massacre and the Creation of the Civilian War Memorial of Singapore." Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 73, 2: 71-90.
4. Bloodworth, D. 1986. The Tiger and the Trojan Horse.
5. Crawford, K. 2003. "Revisiting Hiroshima: The Role of US and Japanese History Textbooks in the Construction of National Memory." Asia Pacific Education Review 4, 1: 108-117.
6. Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore. 1985. Social and Economic History of Modern Singapore. Singapore: Longman.
7. Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore. 1994. History of Modern Singapore. Singapore: Longman.
8. Curriculum Planning and Development Division. 1999. Understanding Our Past. Singapore: From Colony to Nation. Singapore: Federal Publications.
9. Curriculum Planning and Development Division. 1999. Understanding Our Past. Singapore: From Colony to Nation. Teacher's Resource. Singapore: Federal Publications.
10. Curriculum Planning and Development Division. 2001. Upper Secondary Social Studies. Singapore: Longman.
11. Drysdale, J. 1984. Singapore: Struggle for Success. Singapore: Times Books International.
12. Gan, Dennis Eunne-Ru. 1997. "Public History in Singapore in the 1990s: The Second World War." Unpublished B.A. thesis, Department of History, National University of Singapore.
13. Goh Chor Boon. 2003. "Things Japanese in Our History Syllabus: Implications for National Education," in Steven Tan Kwang San and Goh Chor Boon, eds., Securing Our Future: Sourcebook for National Education Ideas and Strategies for Secondary Schools and Junior Colleges. Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall.
14. Goh Sin Hwee. 2003. Revisiting the 1950s and 1960s: Deconstructing the Political Discourse and Structure of Singapore's History." Tangent 6: 50-60.
15. Gopinathan, S. 1974. Toward a National System of Education in Singapore 1945-1973. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
16. Gopinathan, S. 1995. "Religious Education in a Secular State: The Singapore Experience." Asian Journal of Political Science 3, 2.
17. Harper, T. N. 2001. "Lim Chin Siong and the 'Singapore Story,'" in Tang Jing Quce and K. S. Jomo, eds., Comet in Our Sky: Lim Chin Siong in History. Kuala Lumpur: INSAN.
18. Hein, L. And Selden M. 1998. "Learning Citizenship from the Past: Textbook Nationalism, Global Context, and Social Change." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 30, 2: 3-15.
19. Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli. 2003. "The Scripting of Singapore's National Heroes: Toying with Pandora's Box" in Ahmad and Ee.
20. Husbands, C. 1996. What Is History? Language, Ideas and Meaning in Learning about the Past. London: Open University Press.
21. Kumar, A. 2002. "The Role of History Textbooks in the Learning of History: A Secondary School Pupils' Perspective in Singapore." Unpublished M. Ed. thesis, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University [Singapore].
22. Lam Peng Er and Tan, Y.L. Kevin, eds. 1999. Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
23. Lau, A. 1992. "The National Past and the Writing of the History of Singapore," in Ban Kah Choon, A. Pakir, and Tong Chee Kiong, eds., Imagining Singapore. Singapore: Times Academic Press.
24. Lee Kuan Yew. 1998. The Singapore Story. Singapore: Times Editions.
25. Lee Kuan Yew. 2000. From Third World to First. Singapore: Times Editions.
26. Lee Lay Hong. 2003. Forgive but Not Forget: The Japanese Occupation in Singapore Textbooks, 1965-2003. Unpublished paper, Department of History, National University of Singapore.
27. Lim Chin Tok and Tate, M. 1969. Oxford Progressive History for Singapore: The Growth of Civilisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
28. Loh Kah Seng. 1998. "Within the Singapore Story: The Use and Narrative of History in Singapore." Crossroads 12, 2.
29. Ludmilla J. 2000. History in Practice. London: Arnold.
30. Ministry of Education. 1999. History Syllabus, Lower Secondary. Singapore: Curriculum Planning and Development Division.
31. Ministry of Education. 2002. GCE 'O' Level Revised History Syllabus. Singapore: Curriculum Planning and Development Division.
32. Moore, D. And Moore, J. 1969. The First 150 Years of Singapore. Singapore: Donald Moore Press.
33. Mutalib, H. 1992. "Singapore's Quest for a National Identity," in Ban Kah Choon, A. Pakir, and Tong Chee Kiong, eds., Imagining Singapore. Singapore: Times Academic Press.
34. Nazareth, P. N. 1961. The Story of Malaya and Her Neighbours. Singapore: Peter Chong Publications.
35. Sai Siew Min and Huang Jianli. 1999. "The Chinese-Educated Political Vanguards," in Lam Peng Er and Kevin Y. L. Tan, eds., Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
36. Tan Jing Quee and Jomo, K. S., eds. 2001. Comet in Our Sky: Lim Chin Siong in History. Kuala Lumpur: INSAN.
37. Tonnesson, S. And Hans A. 1996. Asian Forms of the Nation. Surrey, Richmond: Curzon Press.
38. Turnbull, M. (1989) A History of Singapore, 1819-1988, 2nd ed. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
39. Wee, C. J. W. L. 1999. "The Vanquished: Lim Chin Siong and a Progressivist National Narrative," in Lam Peng Er and Y.L. Tan, Lee's Lieutenants.
40. Wee, C. J. W. L. 2003. Our Island Story: Economic Development and the National Narrative in Singapore. In Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee, eds., New Terrains in Southeast Asian History.