Academic Profile : Faculty
Dr Mardiana Bte Abu Bakar
Lecturer, Policy, Curriculum and Leadership
Lecturer, National Institute of Education - Policy, Curriculum & Leadership
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Mardiana Abu Bakar is a lecturer with the Policy, Curriculum and Leadership Academic Group. She is also programme leader in the Master of Education, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. In these roles, she teaches and partly administers the core programmes on curriculum policy and theory; and an elective on curriculum implementation.
She is currently PI in a Funds of Knowledge research in Singapore schools as well as co-PI in three research projects: 1. Diversity and intercultural mindedness amongst secondary school students; 2. The role of a child support model for low-income families; and 3. The pathways and life trajectories narratives of vocational students in Singapore.
A critical scholar interested in issues of curriculum access and equity, Mardiana believes that schools are places of possibilities and constraints; and her main passion is to contribute towards the nurturing of self-critical communities of reflexive educators.
She is currently PI in a Funds of Knowledge research in Singapore schools as well as co-PI in three research projects: 1. Diversity and intercultural mindedness amongst secondary school students; 2. The role of a child support model for low-income families; and 3. The pathways and life trajectories narratives of vocational students in Singapore.
A critical scholar interested in issues of curriculum access and equity, Mardiana believes that schools are places of possibilities and constraints; and her main passion is to contribute towards the nurturing of self-critical communities of reflexive educators.
Curriculum History,Curriculum Reform,Curriculum Theory and Design,Dialogic Teaching,Educational Research,Problem-Based Learning,Reflective Practice,Sociology of Curriculum,Values Education
- Pathways to Meaningful Careers:Understanding Successes and Challenges in the Transitions from School to Work for Singapore's ITE students
- Singapore funds of knowledge: A qualitative study of lower-tracked learners' literacy practices in- and out-of-school