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  1. Rethinking the notion of the high-performing education system: A Daoist response

    Article • Research in Comparative and International Education, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  2. Private tutoring and the subjective rationalities of parents: the experiences in South Korea and Singapore

    Article • Asian Education and Development Studies, October 2020, Emerald

    Charlene Tan

  3. Being modern in China. A western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today

    Article • British Journal of Sociology of Education, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  4. Revisiting Donald Schön’s notion of reflective practice: a Daoist interpretation

    Article • Reflective Practice, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  5. Social justice education with Chinese characteristics: An example from Shanghai

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, June 2020, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  6. Conceptions and Practices of Critical Thinking in Chinese Schools: An Example from Shanghai

    Article • Educational Studies, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  7. The learning school through a Daoist lens

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  8. Digital Confucius? Exploring the implications of artificial intelligence in spiritual education

    Article • Connection Science, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  9. Transformational Islamic Leadership

    Article • January 2020, IGI Global

    Charlene Tan

  10. An ethical foundation for global citizenship education: a neo-Confucian perspective

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  11. Conceptualising social justice in education: a Daoist perspective

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  12. A Signature Pedagogy for Initial Teacher Education in Singapore

    Article • The New Educator, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  13. Challenging Gendered Social Norms: Educational Insights from Confucian Classics

    Article • Asian Philosophy, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  14. Path-dependency or path-shaping? An analysis of the policy to target exam-orientation in South Korea

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  15. Advancing Student-Centric Education in Korea: Issues and Challenges

    Article • The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  16. Beyond high-stakes exam: A neo-Confucian educational programme and its contemporary implications

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  17. Rethinking the Concept of Mindfulness: A Neo‐Confucian Approach

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, April 2019, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  18. A Confucian Interpretation of Creativity

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, February 2019, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  19. Sensemaking and sensegiving in schooling reform: South Korea and China

    Article • Globalisation Societies and Education, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  20. Parental responses to education reform in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong

    Article • Asia Pacific Education Review, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  21. Mencius’ extension of moral feelings: implications for cosmopolitan education

    Article • Ethics and Education, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  22. Whither Teacher-Directed Learning? Freirean and Confucian Insights

    Article • The Educational Forum, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  23. Competence or Performance? A Bernsteinian Analysis of Basic Competency Assessment in Hong Kong

    Article • British Journal of Educational Studies, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  24. Signature Pedagogies for Educators Using Films: An Example From Singapore

    Article • The Teacher Educator, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  25. To be more fully human: Freire and Confucius

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  26. A Confucian perspective of self-cultivation in learning: Its implications for self-directed learning

    Article • Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  27. Neoliberalism as exception: the New High-Quality School project in Shanghai

    Article • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  28. Teaching critical thinking: Cultural challenges and strategies in Singapore

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, June 2017, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  29. The enactment of the policy initiative for critical thinking in Singapore schools

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  30. Chinese responses to Shanghai’s performance in PISA

    Article • Comparative Education, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  31. Private Supplementary Tutoring and Parentocracy in Singapore

    Article • Interchange, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  32. PISA and education reform in Shanghai

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  33. Humanism, Islamic Education, and Confucian Education

    Article • Religious Education, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  34. A Confucian Conception of Critical Thinking

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, December 2016, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  35. Lifelong learning through the SkillsFuture movement in Singapore: challenges and prospects

    Article • International Journal of Lifelong Education, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  36. A shared vision of human excellence: Confucian spirituality and arts education

    Article • Pastoral Care in Education, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  37. Promoting reflection in pre-service teachers through problem-based learning: an example from Canada

    Article • Reflective Practice, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  38. Tensions and challenges in China’s education policy borrowing

    Article • Educational Research, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  39. Teacher agency and school-based curriculum in China’s non-elite schools

    Article • Journal of Educational Change, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  40. Professional learning communities in Singapore and Shanghai: implications for teacher collaboration

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  41. Educational Policy Borrowing in China

    Article • February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  42. Constructivism and pedagogical reform in China: issues and challenges

    Article • Globalisation Societies and Education, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  43. Beyond ‘either-or’ thinking: John Dewey and Confucius on subject matter and the learner

    Article • Pedagogy Culture and Society, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  44. Teacher-directed and learner-engaged: exploring a Confucian conception of education

    Article • Ethics and Education, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  45. Building teachers’ capacity in formative assessment: the singapore example

    Article • The New Educational Review, June 2015, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek

    Charlene Tan

  46. Rethinking the Framework for 21st-Century Education: Toward a Communitarian Conception

    Article • The Educational Forum, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  47. Developing Teachers Through Professional Learning Communities in Singapore and Shanghai

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  48. Education policy borrowing and cultural scripts for teaching in China

    Article • Comparative Education, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  49. Fostering Social Cohesion and Cultural Sustainability: Character and Citizenship Education in Singapore

    Article • Diaspora Indigenous and Minority Education, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  50. Rationality and autonomy from the Enlightenment and Islamic perspectives

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  51. Muslim Education in the 21st Century

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  52. Beyond Rote-Memorisation: Confucius’ Concept of Thinking

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  53. Education policy borrowing in China: has the West wind overpowered the East wind?

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  54. Global Perspectives on Spirituality and Education

    Article • December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yaacov J Katz, Charlene Tan

  55. Reflective thinking for intelligence analysis using a case study

    Article • Reflective Practice, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  56. For group, (f)or self: communitarianism, Confucianism and values education in Singapore

    Article • The Curriculum Journal, December 2013, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  57. “OUR SHARED VALUES” IN SINGAPORE: A CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVE

    Article • Educational Theory, July 2012, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  58. The culture of education policy making: curriculum reform in Shanghai

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  59. Promoting spiritual ideals through design thinking in public schools

    Article • International Journal of Children s Spirituality, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  60. Islamic Education and Indoctrination

    Article • January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  61. Creating thinking schools through authentic assessment: the case in Singapore

    Article • Educational Assessment Evaluation and Accountability, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  62. Functional differentiation: a critique of the bilingual policy in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Asian Public Policy, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  63. Where tradition and ‘modern’ knowledge meet: exploring two Islamic schools in Singapore and Britain

    Article • Intercultural Education, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  64. Educational policy trajectories in an era of globalization: Singapore and Cambodia

    Article • Prospects, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  65. Exploring the Spiritual Needs of Adolescent Girls

    Article • Religion & Education, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  66. Contesting reform: Bernstein’s pedagogic device and madrasah education in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Curriculum Studies, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  67. The Singapore Global Schoolhouse

    Article • The International Journal of Educational Management, March 2010, Emerald

    Charlene Tan

  68. Maximising the overlapping area: multiculturalism and a Muslim identity for madrasahs in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  69. Two views of education: Promoting civic and moral values in Cambodia schools

    Article • International Journal of Educational Development, September 2008, Elsevier

    Charlene Tan

  70. Improving schools through reflection for teachers: lessons from Singapore

    Article • School Effectiveness and School Improvement, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  71. Creating ‘good citizens’ and maintaining religious harmony in Singapore

    Article • British Journal of Religious Education, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  72. The Teaching of Religious Knowledge in a Plural Society: The Case for Singapore

    Article • International Review of Education, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  73. Education reforms in Cambodia: issues and concerns

    Article • Educational Research for Policy and Practice, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  74. Islam and citizenship education in Singapore

    Article • Education Citizenship and Social Justice, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  75. Dynamics of change: decentralised centralism of education in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Educational Change, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  76. Change and Continuity: Chinese Language Policy in Singapore

    Article • Language Policy, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  77. Michael Hand, Indoctrination and the Inculcation of Belief

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, May 2004, Wiley

    Charlene Tan