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Becoming a Researcher and Scholar
Professor A. Lin Goodwin was invited as the NIE Higher Degrees Distinguished Speaker from 10 to 11 January 2019. She is Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Prior to joining HKU in 2017, she was Vice Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University (TCCU) in New York, and the Evenden Foundation Chair of Education. She delivered the Distinguished Lecture, “Becoming a researcher and scholar: Theoretical, practical and philosophical lessons for surviving . . . and thriving!”, which was framed by her conceptualisation of the Five Dimensions of Knowledge for Teaching that offered rich perspectives and raised important questions for scholars to keep themselves wide awake to research possibilities. In a seminar with NIE’s doctoral students entitled, “Doing research that matters, to both the researcher and the researched”, she highlighted the challenges, tensions and dilemmas commonly encountered by graduate students and offered some principles to guide research that matters.
A special feature of this publication is the inaugural symposium by NIE NTU and Teachers College Columbia University on 11 January 2019 with the theme, “Beyond exams: Transforming schools in the changing educational landscape in Singapore”. The event highlighted the challenges posed by complex educational issues in the face of a changing and uncertain future that require school leaders, teachers, students and parents to engage in new ways of thinking, doing and being. Drawing on research and practices in school change and leadership from Singapore, the United States and elsewhere, the symposium sought to raise questions about teaching, learning and assessment, and challenge assumptions about innovations in education.
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