Book (Open Access): Signature pedagogies for professions in arts and design
Kan, R.Y.P., & Khoo, C.S.G. (Eds). (2025). Signature pedagogies for professions in arts and design: Issues, methods, contexts, practices. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2616-8 (Open Access) Extracts from the Introduction : Signature pedagogy is a multifaceted concept developed by Shulman (2005a & 2005b) and his colleagues at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for analysing and characterising pedagogical methods and educational programmes that prepare students for particular professions. The abstract and multifaceted nature of the concept provides a rich framework for analysing pedagogical methods deeply, identifying their core characteristics and their relation to professional thinking, practice and attitudes. This exploration of professional arts and design education is carried out in the context of a premier arts education institution in Singapore—the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (hereafter NAFA), one of two constituent institutions of the University of the Arts Singapore. … As each chapter examines particular educational methods, concepts and...
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Welcome to my research blog! This blog gives an overview of my research projects and research directions. There is a separate page listed on the menu bar for the following areas: Natural language processing & text mining, especially multidocument summarization, sentiment analysis and information extraction Academic writing and thinking, including writing analytics Knowledge organization/representation: especially ontology construction to support text summarization, automatic discourse analysis, research data management, and cultural heritage portal Health informatics–new project: Live Reviews of COVID-19 Research: Automatic Updating and Visualization of Rapid Reviews of COVID-19 Interventions and Treatments Information behaviour in social media sites and heritage portals (no current projects) Brief cv and publication list...