“The Hunt for Mas Selamat” – Sonny Liew
Posted in 17 History and Critical Pedagogy on Sep 9th, 2018
“The Hunt for Mas Selamat” Sonny Liew From Liquid City Volume 2 (Image Comics, 2010) Used with Permission from Artist
new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 17 History and Critical Pedagogy on Sep 9th, 2018
“The Hunt for Mas Selamat” Sonny Liew From Liquid City Volume 2 (Image Comics, 2010) Used with Permission from Artist
Posted in 17 History and Critical Pedagogy on Sep 9th, 2018
“History Education, Graphic Novels & Historical Thinking” Joseph Tham Comics’ socio-cultural status have been gradually elevated in the form of graphic novels since the late 1980s. This meant that sequential art as a genre was able to break out of a traditionally ghettoised corner. The fact that many bookstores have a dedicated section […]
Posted in 17 History and Critical Pedagogy on Sep 9th, 2018
“Writing Emergency: Teaching Singapore Literature in an Historical Frame” Philip Holden Literature and history have been uneasy companions for a very long time. Confucians and Platonists have been sceptical about the distance of literary texts from the truth: Aristotelians, in contrast, have seen literary texts as embodying higher truths to which history cannot […]
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“Teaching the Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye” Angelia Poon One of the most rewarding Literature lessons I have taught in the last two years has centered around Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. I have assigned the book for undergraduate and Masters-level classes as part of thirteen-week courses with […]
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“Editorial: Critical Pedagogy” Chua Beng Huat In principle, any material objects can be used for pedagogical purposes, depending on what knowledge is to be communicated and acquired. The selection and use of a particular material is therefore necessarily ideological. Furthermore, the ideological intentions of the selector is unavoidable embedded in the selected […]
Posted in 17 History and Critical Pedagogy on Sep 9th, 2018
Introduction: History and Critical Pedagogy 11 years and 17 issues in, s/pores is still obsessed with history. But it can’t really be helped. Quite a few of us who work on s/pores? have taught history in one capacity or another. As someone who have taught history in schools, I am always interested in […]