Fostering Research Collaboration With South Korea
Seoul National University (SNU) and NIE came together recently to organise a symposium themed “Building Bridges: Fostering International Research Collaboration in Education”. The forum, held at NIE on 9 February 2018, saw faculty members from both institutions presenting their research studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and global citizenship education.
Speakers from both sides covered a range of topics and issues in their presentations. These included:
- A Comparative Study of Science Classroom Culture in Korea, Singapore and England by using Latent Profile Analysis, by Professor Jinwoong Song and Dr Jisun Park (SNU)
- Science Teaching in Singapore: Educational Connoisseurship of 10 Classrooms in Primary Science and Physics, by Associate Professor Lee Yew Jin (NIE)
- Multidisciplinary Collaborative Learning Environments and Learner Intuitions on Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics, by Dr Kenneth Lim (NIE)
- Re-framing 21st Century Education from a Cosmopolitan Lens, by Assistant Professor Suzanne Choo (NIE)
- Global Citizenship Education in the Korean Social Studies Curriculum, by Professor Kyung Hwan Mo (SNU)
- The Corruption Scandal and Implications for Political Education in Korea, by Professor HeeMin Kim (SNU)
- Towards a Framework of Constructing Scientific Explanation in Physics, by Assistant Professor Jennifer Yeo (NIE)
- Using Augmented Reality in Physics Education, by Professor Junehee Yoo (SNU)
The topics and presentations drew interesting parallels between Singapore and South Korea in STEM as well as global citizenship education. The insights provided fresh impetus for possible research collaborations between the two institutions.
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