Religious Education in a Secular State: The Singapore Experience

Asian Journal of Political Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 15-27

  Gopinathan, S ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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EID: 84963429943     PISSN: 02185377     EISSN: 17507812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02185379508434059     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. This article was originally prepared for a conference on moral education and the curriculum. While some of the discussion in relation to the issues in curriculum has been deleted the primary thrust of this paper, an analysis of a curriculum innovation in Singapore, remains.
2. William Cummings, S. Gopinathan and Y. Tomoda (eds.), The Revival of Values Education in Asia and the West (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988).
3. John Meyer, David Kemens and Aaron Benavot, School Knowledge for the Masses (Washington DC: Falmer Press, 1992).
4. William Cummings, S. Gopinathan and Y. Tomoda (eds.), op. cit., p. 167.
5. Chan Heng Chee “The Political System and Social Change”, in R. Hassan (ed.), Singapore: Society in Transition (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1976).
6. S. Rajaratnam, “Asian Values and Modernization” in Seah Chee Meow (ed.), Asian Values and Modernization (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1977).
7. See Straits Times (Singapore), 6 August 1986.
8. Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 8 February 1972.
9. T.R. Doraisamy (ed.), 150 Years of Education in Singapore (Singapore: Teachers Training College Publication Board, 1969).
10. Lee Kuan Yew, op. cit., 1972.
11. S. Borthwick, “Chinese Education and Identity in Singapore” in J. Cushman and Wang Gungwu (eds.), Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II, (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1988).
12. For a detailed account of Singapore's educational context and moral education policies see S. Gopinathan, “Being and Becoming: Education for Values in Singapore” in William Cummings, S. Gopinathan, Y. Tomoda (eds.), op. cit.
13. Eddie Kuo, Jon Quah and Tong Chee Kiong, Religion and Religious Revivalism in Singapore (Singapore: Ministry of Community Development, 1988).
14. J.B. Tamney, “Modernizing Confucianism: School Days in Singapore” in William H. Swatos Jnr. (ed.), Twentieth Century World Religious Movements in Neo-Weberian Perspective (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
15. M. Grimmitt, What Can I Do in Religious Education? (London: Mayhew-McCrimmon, 1973).
16. See Straits Times (Singapore), 6 and 7 December, 1983.
17. S. Gopinathan, “Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in Singapore” in Christina B. Paulston (ed.), International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (Estpost: Greenwood Press, 1988).
18. Joy Chew Oon Ai, Moral Education in a Singapore Secondary School, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Monash University, 1988.
19. Eddie Kuo, Jon Quah and Tong Chee Kiong, op. cit.
20. Straits Times (Singapore), 7 August, 1989.
21. Straits Times (Singapore), 11 August, 1989.
22. Straits Times (Singapore), 13 August, 1989.