Professor Michael Singh
PROFESSOR,
Centre for Educational Research (SoE)
Personal
Qualifications
- DipTeach Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education QLD
- PhD Deakin University
- BEd Deakin University
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Centre for Educational Research (SoE)
Contact
| Email: | m.j.singh@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 2186 |
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| Location: | K.2.22 Penrith (Kingswood) |
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Biography
Professor Singh?s research focuses on the role of Australia?s education and training system in strengthening our socio-economic fabric and improving our regional and worldly understanding, specifically through addressing workforce development and labour shortages. Currently, Professor Singh is undertaking: an ARC investigation of ways to extend the capabilities of international research student-migrants in order to address Australia?s need for highly skilled workers. an ARC project exploring the work of Queensland leaders in reforming Years 10, 11 and 12 as they realign education and training to changing workforce needs given local changes in the labour market due to global economic and climatic changes. an ARC study of ?global teachers? and their movements into and out of multicultural Australia. an IELTS investigation into the efficacy of English language tests in choosing teacher education students, as well as conducting a research-based teacher education project intended to enhance Australia/China relations. a UWS study of trans-national policy flows on teacher education, in particular the relationship between the Bologna Process and the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement. Professor Singh is supervising a number of doctoral students undertaking research relating to each of these projects. As part of his international collaborative research in the Asia-Pacific region, Professor Singh is an Associate of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (University of British Columbia) where he is investigating multiculturalism post-11 September 2001.
This information has been contributed by Professor Singh.
Publications
Books
- Singh, M., Kell, P. and Pandian, A. (2002), 'Appropriating English: Innovation in the Global Business of Teaching English', : Peter Lang Publishing 0820456586.
Chapters in Books
- Singh, M. and Cui, G. (2012), 'Multiple Dimensions of Media Communication Skills: New Demands for Transnational, Trans-Cultural Knowledge Exchange', New Media Communication Skills for Engineers and IT Professionals:Trans-National and Trans-Cultural Demands, Information Science Reference 9781466602434.
- Singh, M. and Cui, G. (2012), 'Multiple dimensions of media communication skills : new demands for transnational, trans-cultural knowledge exchange', New Media Communication Skills for Engineers and IT Professionals: Trans-National and Trans-Cultural Demands, Information Science Reference 9781466602434.
- Singh, M. (2012), 'Ranciere and leadership for reforms to school-to-work transition : the presupposition of equality of theoretical assets from diverse educational cultures', Cultural and Social Diversity and the Transition from Education to Work, Springer 9789400751064.
- Singh, M. (2012), 'A capability approach to cultural diversity in school-to-work transitions : Amartya Sen and young adults? diversely different education and work communities', Cultural and Social Diversity and the Transition from Education to Work, Springer 9789400751064.
- Singh, M. (2011), 'Transformative knowledge exchange and critical pedagogy: Internationalising education through intellectual engagement', Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University: Reflections of the Deakin Diaspora., Sense 9789460916373.
- Singh, M. and Naidoo, L. (2010), 'Curriculum and Transnational Student Spaces: Discourses of Identity and Representation Amongst Chinese Transnational Students in Australia', Handbook of Curriculum Development, Nova 9781606922873.
- Singh, M. and Guo, W. (2010), 'The Digital Education Revolution and Languages: Insights from Sassen on Transforming a Chinese Academic into a Trans-National Researcher', Global Student Mobility In The Asia Pacific: Mobility, Migration, Security And Wellbeing Of International Students, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443819084.
- Singh, M. and Shrestha, M. (2008), 'International Pedagogical Structures: Admittance into the community of scholars via double knowledge', Researching International Pedagogies: Sustainable Practice for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Springer 9781402088575.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2008), 'The commoditization of English and the Bologna Process: Global products and services, exchange mechanisms and trans-national labour', Language as commodity: Global structures, local marketplaces, Continuum International Publishing Group 9781847064233.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2008), 'Trans-national mobility, world Englishes and student-tachers: Bologna's interruption of absences in teacher education', Critical readings in teacher education: Provoking absences, Sense Publishers 9789087902896.
- Singh, M. and Fu, D. (2008), 'Are we uncritical, unfocussed, plagiarising rote learners? Forming and Informing argumentative Chinese students through quality University learning', Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology, Post Pressed 9781921214387.
- Singh, M. and Guo, W. (2008), 'Centring students' bilingual capabilities in quality university teaching: Bringing 'knowledge detours' and 'zigzag learning' in from the margins', Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology, Post Pressed 9781921214387.
- Singh, M., Qi, H. and Hu, J. (2008), 'Film as a vehicle for researching problems relevant to students' future careers: Evidence-driven research and quality university teaching', Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology, Post Pressed 9781921214387.
- Singh, M. and Yao, L. (2008), 'The nexus between research and student learning: International testing research and reflections', Changing University Learning and Teaching: Engaging and mobilising Leadership, Quality and Technology, Post Pressed 9781921214387.
- Singh, M., Southwell, B. and Phanalasy, O. (2007), 'Globalisation/Localisation in Mathematics Education: Perception, Realism and Outcomes of an Australian Presence in Asia', Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education, Springer 9781402059070.
- Singh, M. and Wang, Y. (2007), 'Bi-Lateral Engagements in Research: Trans-National Collaborations in Knowledge Production', Higher Education in the Asia Pacific: Challenges for the Future, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1847181910.
- Singh, M., Rizvi, F. and Shrestha, M. (2007), 'Student mobility and the spatial production of cosmopolitan identities', Spatial Theories of Education, Routledge 9780415403955.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2006), 'Quality English Teaching for a Knowledge Producing Society: Inspiring Robust Hope, Creativity and Passion', Only connect : English teaching, schooling and community, Wakefield Press 1862546983.
- Singh, M. and Naidoo, L. (2006), 'Respondents' Conclusion: From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern: New Directions for Critical Education Research', Doctrina Perpetua: Brokering Change, Promoting Innovation and Transforming Marginalisation in University Learning and Teaching, Central Queensland University 1876682930.
- Singh, M. (2005), 'Identity Conversion, Citizenship, and Social Studies: Asian-Australian Perspectives on Indigenous Reconciliation and Human Rights', Struggles over Difference, State University of New York Press 0791463974.
- Singh, M. (2005), 'Enabling trans-national learning communities: Policies, pedagogies and politics of educational power', Internationalizing Higher Education: Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy, Springer Verlag 1402036566.
- Singh, M. (2005), 'Globalizing Education:Perspectives from above and Below', Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies & Politics, Peter Lang Publishing 0820471208.
- Singh, M. (2005), 'Responsive Education: Enabling Transformative Engagements with Transitions in Global/National Imperatives', Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies & Politics, Peter Lang Publishing 0820471208.
- Singh, M. and Nengying Li, L. (2004), 'Educating Adult Researcher: Mitigating Neo-conservative Globalism and Mediating Eco-cultural Sustainability', Adult Education @ 21st century, Peter Lang Publishing 0820461105.
- Singh, M. and Shore, S. (2004), 'Conclusion - Pedagogies of Global/Local hope: Disobedience in the Face of Globalism', Adult Education @ 21st century, Peter Lang Publishing 0820461105.
- Singh, M. (2004), 'Enabling Australia: REsponsive Education and global Movements of People', Sociology of Education - Possibilities and Practices, Social Science Press 0170122107.
- Singh, M. (2004), 'Developing agency - building capacity', Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: A Critical Review, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Ltd ) 0415276300.
Journal Articles
- Singh, M. and Meng, H. (2013), 'Democratising Western research using non-Western theories: Ranciere and mute Chinese theoretical tools', Studies in Higher Education, 14.
- Li, L., Singh, M. and Robertson, S. (2012), 'Australian languages education in the Asian century: deeping of linguistic and intellectual engagements with Asia', Local-Global Special Edition: Globalization, Languages, Knowledge: Australian languages education in the 'Asian century', 12.
- Singh, M. and Tamatea, L. (2012), 'Innovations in partnership-driven teacher eduation: stimulating Australian languages eduction through transnational knowledge networking', Local-Global Special Edition Globalization, Languages, Knowledge: Australian languages education in the 'Asian century', 24.
- Li, L., Singh, M. and Robertson, S. (2012), 'Australian languages education in the Asian century : deepening of linguistic and intellectual engagements with Asia', Local Global, 12.
- Singh, M. and Tamatea, L. (2012), 'Innovations in partnership-driven teacher eduation : stimulating Australian languages eduction through transnational knowledge networking', Local Global, 24.
- Singh, M., Han, J. and Woodrow, C. (2012), 'Shifting pedagogies through distributed leadership : mentoring Chilean early childhood educators in literacy teaching', Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 9.
- Reid, J., Mayer, D., Santoro, N. and Singh, M. (2012), 'Learning and teaching : issues for teacher education', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 3.
- Zhao, D. and Singh, M. (2011), 'Why do chinese-australian students outperform their australian peers in mathematics: A comparative case study', International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 19.
- Singh, M. and Cui, G. (2011), 'Internationalising Western Doctoral Education through Bilingual Research Literacy', Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 11.
- Singh, M. (2011), 'Learning from China to internationalise Australian research education: Pedagogies of intellectual equality and 'optimal ignorance' of ERA journal rankings', Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 11.
- Singh, M., Reid, J., Mayer, D. and Santoro, N. (2011), 'Forming, informing and transforming teacher education researchers as ethical subjects', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 11.
- Reid, J., Singh, M., Santoro, N. and Mayer, D. (2011), 'What does good teacher education research look like?', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 6.
- Mayer, D., Reid, J., Santoro, N. and Singh, M. (2011), 'Quality teacher education: the challenges of developing professional knowledge, honing professional practice and managing teacher identities', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 4.
- Han, J., Singh, M. and Zhao, D. (2010), 'Safety literacy for speakers of English as a foreign language: Educating novice drivers for the public's health', Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 15.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2010), 'Peer Review, Bourdieu and Honour: Connecting Chinese and Australian Intellectual Projects', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 14.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2010), 'Teacher education for World English Speaking student-teachers: Making transnational knowledge connections for mutual learning', Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education, 9.
- Singh, M. (2010), 'Connecting intellectual projects in China and Australia: Bradley's international student-migrants, Bourdieu and productive ignorance', Australian Journal of Education, 15.
- Singh, M., Reid, J., Santoro, N. and Mayer, D. (2010), 'Internationalising the work of teacher education researchers', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 5.
- Sawyer, W., Singh, M. and Zhao, D. (2009), 'Boys' literacy: Negotiating the Territory', English in Australia, 10.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2009), 'Engaging Chinese ideas through Australian education research: using chengyu to connect intellectual projects across 'peripheral' nations', Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 15.
- Singh, M. (2009), 'Using Chinese knowledge in internationalising research education: Jacques Ranciere, an ignorant supervisor and doctoral students from China', Globalisation; Societies and Education, 17.
- Harreveld, B. and Singh, M. (2009), 'Contextualising learning at the education-training-work interface', Education & Training, 16.
- Shrestha, M., Wilson, S. and Singh, M. (2008), 'Knowledge Networking: A Dilemma in Building Social Capital through Nonformal Education', Adult Education Quarterly, 22.
- Singh, M. and Sawyer, W. (2008), 'Democracy and robust hope: Queensland's education and training reforms for the future', Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 15.
- Singh, M. and Ling, Z. (2008), 'Europe's Bologna process and the Australian Higher Education Graduate Statement: Lowering informational barriers to graduate mobility', Modern University Education, 15.
- Harreveld, R. and Singh, M. (2008), 'Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and the Brokering of Learning Provision for Young Adults', Vocations and Learning, 16.
- Singh, M. and Fu, D. (2008), 'Flowery inductive rhetoric meets creative deductive arguments: Becoming transnational researcher-writers', International journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 17.
- Naidoo, L., Singh, M. and Sanagavarapu, P. (2007), 'Guest Editors' Introduction: Globalisation, Westernisation and Sino-Australia Educational Reform', Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 6.
- Singh, M. (2007), 'A Sound Research Base for Beginning Teacher Education: Robust hope, action policy analysis and Top of the Class', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 17.
- Han, J. and Singh, M. (2007), 'Getting World English Speaking Teachers to the Top of the Class: Making hope for ethno-cultural diversity in teacher education robust', Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 19.
- Sawyer, W., Singh, M., Woodrow, C., Downes, T., Johnston, C. and Whitton, D. (2007), 'Robust Hope and Teacher Education Policy', Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 16.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2007), 'World English Speaking (WES) student-teachers' experiences of schools: curriculum issues, transnational mobility and the Bologna Process', Transnational Curriculum inquiry, 15.
- Cao, T., Singh, M. and Han, J. (2007), 'Language is Human, Human is Language', Foreign Language Research, 5.
- Singh, M., Han, J. and Harreveld, B. (2006), 'The impacts of redistributive quantum funding: managing quality education research to extend talent, sustain openness and build toolkits', The Australian Educational Researcher, 15.
- Singh, M. and Sproats, E. (2005), 'Constructing Local/Global Pedagogies: Insights into the Learning Experiences of International Students', Education and Society, 19.
- Singh, M. and Han, J. (2005), 'Globalizing Flexible Work in Universities: Socio-technical Dilemmas in Internationalizing Education', International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, .
- Singh, M. (2005), 'Changes in Education and globalisation : Creativity - a resource for robust hope', Pacific Asian Education, 14.
- Singh, M. and Wu, J. (2004), 'Wishing for the Dragon Children: Ironies and Contradictions in China's Education Reform and the Chinese Diaspora's Disappointments with Australian Education', The Australian Educational Researcher, 16.
- Singh, M. (2004), 'Neo-conservative Globalism and the Internationalisation of Education: Insights from the Transnational Mobility of Young Said', Melbourne Studies in Education: Pedagogies, Policies and Politics of Mobility, 19.
- Singh, M. and Scanion, C. (2003), 'Managing risks and Opportunities in Multilingual Knowledge Economies: The Possibilities of Ethical Investment Movement to Sustaining Biolinguistic Diversity', Journal of Language Teaching Linguistics and Literature, 10.
Conference Papers
- Singh, M. (2011), 'Multicultural international Mindedness: Pedagogies of intellectual e/quality for Australian engagement with Indian (and Chinese) theorising', Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China, Sydney.
- Zhao, D. and Singh, M. (2009), 'Research-Oriented School-Engaged Teacher Education: The logic of practicing workplace-research education', 2009 - Annual AARE Conference, Canberra.
- Zhao, D. and Singh, M. (2008), 'International Cooperation in Teacher Education: Case study on an innovative model of language teacher training', International Conference on Teacher Education Transformative Society and Teacher Education Reform, Northeast Normal University.
- Zhao, D., Singh, M. and Han, J. (2007), 'The development of road safety literacy: Self-reflective study by Chinese learner drivers in Australia', 3rd International road Safety Conference, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
- Singh, M., Dimitrov, V. and Woog, R. (2005), 'Bridging Semantics and Complexity: Exploring Virtual Meanings of Words', International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy, Rio de Janeiro.
- Wang, Y. and Singh, M. (2005), 'Conducting Collaborative Educational Research Online: Creating Transnational Knowledge networks Between Developed and Developing Countries', CEASS Conference: Scholarship and Community UWS 2005, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown.
Research
Current Projects
| Title: | A comparative study of international mindedness in the IB Diploma Programmes in Australia, China and India [via USYD] |
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| Years: | 2012-10-01 - |
| ID: | P00021271 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh |
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| Title: | Extending the capabilities of argumentative Chinese students: Enhancing Australia's pedagogical capacity for engaging China through internationalising research education |
| Years: | 2009-01-01 - 2013-12-31 |
| ID: | P0016037 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh, Jing Han and Jinghe Han |
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| Title: | Futuro Infantil Hoy: The Development of Leaders in Early Childhood Education: A sociological study of transnational knowledge exchange - Australia and Chile: Phase 2 |
| Years: | 2011-09-12 - 2014-12-15 |
| ID: | P00020456 |
| UWS Researchers: | Christine Woodrow, Michael Singh, Juan Francisco Salazar, Leonie Arthur and Kerry Staples |
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Previous Projects
| Title: | New Learning for New Employment Opportunities: Green, Wired, Safe - a GWS Postdoctoral Fellowship |
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| Years: | 2004-04-28 - 2009-07-28 |
| ID: | P0014354 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh |
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| Title: | International student mobility and educational innovation: Chinese students and the internationalization of Australian and American universities |
| Years: | 2004-01-12 - 2006-03-31 |
| ID: | P0009998 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh |
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| Title: | Globalisation, Westernisation and Sino-Australian Educational Reforms: A relational study of changes in particular educational sites, texts and practices |
| Years: | 2005-02-01 - 2006-11-30 |
| ID: | P0014474 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh, Loshini Naidoo and Prathyusha Sanagavarapu |
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| Title: | The efficacy of IELTS in choosing potentially successful students for teacher education courses. What is an appropriate score? |
| Years: | 2008-06-24 - 2010-03-23 |
| ID: | P0015775 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh and Wayne Sawyer |
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| Title: | Multi-level leadership for engaging young people through innovations in senior learning: Brokering socio-economically aligned learning and work [via Central Qld Uni] |
| Years: | 2007-07-01 - 2010-06-30 |
| ID: | P0015841 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh |
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| Title: | The Uses of the Bologna Process in the Internationalisation of Universities: A Comparative Study of Developments in Higher Education Policy in Australia, China and Netherlands |
| Years: | 2006-12-20 - 2008-06-30 |
| ID: | P0015396 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh, Wayne Sawyer and Steve Wilson |
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| Title: | Motivation and engagement of boys: Evidence-based teaching practices |
| Years: | 2005-01-01 - 2005-11-01 |
| ID: | P0014520 |
| UWS Researchers: | Toni Downes, Geoff Munns, Michael Singh, Wayne Sawyer, Robyn Gregson, Anne Power, Leonie Arthur, Shirley Gilbert, Judith Thistleton-Martin and Andrew Martin |
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| Title: | Proposal to supply consultancy on review and synthesis of research on Quality Teaching and School Leadership to the National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership (NIQTSL) [via ANU] |
| Years: | 2005-06-20 - 2006-01-27 |
| ID: | P0014677 |
| UWS Researchers: | Catherine Sinclair, Katina Zammit, Michael Singh and Debra Costley |
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| Title: | Globalisation and Teacher Movements into and out of multicultural Australia |
| Years: | 2006-12-20 - 2010-01-31 |
| ID: | P0015032 |
| UWS Researchers: | Carol Reid and Michael Singh |
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| Title: | Community renewal of public housing estate: A responsive evaluation |
| Years: | 2005-10-26 - 2006-11-30 |
| ID: | P0014763 |
| UWS Researchers: | Steve Wilson, Michael Singh and Michael Darcy |
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| Title: | Conceptualizing and Assessing International Mindedness (IM): An Exploratory Study |
| Years: | 2012-12-13 - 2013-04-30 |
| ID: | P00021346 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh |
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| Title: | Global/local cultural flows in education reform |
| Years: | 2004-03-31 - 2005-03-30 |
| ID: | P0013750 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh |
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| Title: | Postgraduate supervisory pedagogies and development work team research: Collaborating with international research higher degree students from China in knowledge creation |
| Years: | 2007-12-10 - 2008-12-09 |
| ID: | P0015914 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh and Dacheng Zhao |
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| Title: | Post-multicultural agendas in educational policy and practice: A cross-national study of Australia, Canada, Britain, the United States, and Ireland |
| Years: | 2008-11-21 - 2009-11-20 |
| ID: | P00016429 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh, Christine Halse and Carol Reid |
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| Title: | The politics of education policy and the education of socially, economically and culturally diverse and marginalised young people |
| Years: | 2010-10-28 - 2011-10-27 |
| ID: | P00017608 |
| UWS Researchers: | Christine Halse, Michael Singh, Kerry Robinson, Carol Reid and Nida Denson |
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| Title: | Weaving Chinese intellectual connections into study of an Australian research-oriented school-engaged teacher education program |
| Years: | 2009-12-04 - 2010-12-03 |
| ID: | P00017714 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh and Dacheng Zhao |
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| Title: | Futuro Infantil Hoy and the professional development of leaders in Early Childhood Education: A sociological study of transnational knowledge exchange between Australia and Chile |
| Years: | 2010-06-01 - 2011-03-30 |
| ID: | P00018220 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh, Christine Woodrow, Steve Wilson and Juan Francisco Salazar |
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| Title: | Evaluation of Blue Mountains School-Centred Community Hub |
| Years: | 2010-03-08 - 2010-08-31 |
| ID: | P00018180 |
| UWS Researchers: | Christine Woodrow and Michael Singh |
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| Title: | Researching the teaching of scholarly argumentation in higher education with special reference to the NESB student |
| Years: | 2009-07-14 - 2011-10-31 |
| ID: | P00017112 |
| UWS Researchers: | Michael Singh and Wayne Sawyer |
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Supervision
Professor Singh is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects
Current Supervision
| Title: | Learning Strategies and Teaching in NSW Schools |
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| Title: | Min Shi Chu Gao Tu: The Strict Teacher Produces the Outstanding Students |
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Previous Supervision
| Title: | The Implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching in a Beginning Mandarin Class in a NSW Primary School |
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| Field of Research: | EDUCATION |
| Thesis: | The Implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching in a Beginning Mandarin Class in a NSW Primary School |
Media
Media Contact Details
| Media Officer: | UWS Media Unit |
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| Phone: | (02) 9678 7083 |
| Email: | media@uws.edu.au |
