LOH Chin Ee

Loh Chin Ee is Assistant Professor at the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education. She graduated from the University of Albany, State University of New York, where she was involved with literacy research projects at the Centre on English Learning and Achievement, including the National Study of Writing Instruction. Formerly a secondary school teacher, she has taught at Raffles Girls’ Secondary School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Yishun Town Secondary School. She currently teachers pre-service, inservice and postgraduate courses on literature education, reading and school libraries at NIE.

Chin Ee’s research focuses on literacy and literature education at the intersection of social class and globalisation. She is invested in using innovative research methods such as socio-spatial approaches and visual methods and drawing on insights from interdisciplinary connections to uncover insights about how better to improve students’ access to reading resources and practices. Findings from her Building a Reading Culture: A Nation-wide Study of Reading and School Libraries (https://www.readingculturesg.org) have been widely shared and significantly improved policy and practice on reading and school libraries in Singapore, while contributing to the international body of knowledge.

Recent books published are The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Social Class and Reading in Singapore (Routledge, 2017) and Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times (Routledge, 2018). Chin Ee is also the co-editor of Teaching Literature in Singapore Secondary Schools (Pearson, 2013), Little Things: an Anthology of Poetry (Ethos, 2013) and co-author of Teaching Poetry to Adolescents: a Teachers’ Guide to Little Things. Her work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Changing English, Literacy, Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy and Anthropology and Education Quarterly, among others. She is Book Review co-editor of  Pedagogies, an international journal, and founder of enl*ght, a NIE-based student-run publication for Literature teachers. She has spoken widely internationally and within Singapore on literature education, reading, school libraries and the design of learning environments.

• Literacy Education, focusing particularly on reading, equity and school libraries
• Literature Education, including multicultural literature and place-based learning
• Reading access across the lifespan
• Teacher education

Preservice Courses

AAE28B: Introduction to Children's Literature

ACR42A: Designing Literature Curriculum and Assessment

ACR422: Literature Assessment

QCR520: Aims and Approaches to Literature Education

QCR523: Literature Assessment, Writing and Teacher Reflection
QUE514: Understanding and Implementing an English Language Curriculum

Higher Degree Courses

MAE808: Literature and Language Education

MAE832: The History and Practice of Reading

MEL918: Reading in a Multimodal Age

MEL812: Developing Reading Competence and Vocabulary

MEL902 / MLE817: Analyzing Literature and Language

MLE814: Literature Assessment: Issues in Approach and Design

MMM800: Critical Inquiry

Inservice Courses

IEL2059: Designing a Lower Secondary Literature Curriculum

IEL2064: Teaching and Assessing the Unseen for the Upper Secondary

IEL2066: Infusing Literature and Rich Texts in the English Language Classroom

IEL2072: Writing in the Literature Classroom

IEL2075: Acing Literature Essays - Approaches to Teaching Writing and Tackling Examination  Questions

IEL2084: Teaching and Assessing Writing in the Literature Classroom

IEL2090: Managing the Secondary School Library

Others

Practicum Supervision

Educational Research

Undergraduate Research (URECA)