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SDP - May 2014 - Creativity and equality at core of SDP's education policy

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SDP awards bursaries to needy students

The SDP awarded the Mohd Isa Bursary Award worth $300 each to seven primary school students from needy families. Professor Paul Tambyah presented the awards to the pupils at the launch of the SDP's education policy paper last Saturday.

The Award is part of the SDP's commitment to using education to reduce the wide wealth disparity in Singapore. There are many families who still find it difficult to afford the expenses associated with school such as transport, pocket-money, school uniforms, textbooks, etc.

Providing financial support for these families is our way of giving these students a leg up so that they can compete fairly with their peers.

The SDP believes that while individuals are imbued with different abilities and talents - which should be rewarded equitably - all citizens must be given the same opportunity to succeed. The analogy is that while competitors finish a race with different times, they must nevertheless begin the race at the same starting point.

It is a terrible blight on our society that there are so many children who have to depend on financial assistance for their school needs in an economy as rich as ours. The education system should ensure that every single child can get an education without having to apply for bursaries or depend on charitable programmes.

There were 56 applications for the Mohd Isa Bursary Award but because of our limited resources, we could only select seven children to receive them. We have, however, indicated to the families who have not been selected that we will try and look for other means to assist them.

If you would like to participate in the effort to assist these children, please make a donation here ----> http://yoursdp.org/index/donate/0-12 or email us at [email protected]
 
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Our paper Education for Creativity and Equality: An Agenda for Transformation spell out policies to assist students from lower-income families and make our education system less elitist and more egalitarian. The alternative measures are:

Nationalise pre-school. The government will take over the provision of pre-school education and ensure that children from poor families are not deprived of quality early childhood education.

Provide school lunch. The provision of lunch for all students will ensure that those from poorer families do not have to ask for pocket-money from charities and be deprived of nutrition needed for healthy development.

Lengthen school hours. Under the SDP plan, school hours will be extended to eight hours a day where time will be put aside for students to complete their assignments in school so that teachers can provide supervision and guidance, thereby ruling out the need for expensive private tuition.

Introduce interest-free student loans. Many students are unable to afford the tuition and fees of our universities. The SDP will provide interest-free student loans so that every one can afford tertiary education if they qualify.

Legislate minimum wage. Many low-income workers don't earn enough despite have full-time jobs. Requiring a just wage for the working poor will ensure that they are able to afford school-related expenses for their children. (While this is not, per se, an education policy, it is one that addresses the needs of pupils from needy families.)

Our education policy is the sixth in the series of alternative policies that we have drawn up to improve the quality of life for Singaporeans. We will produce a final policy paper on the political economy.
 

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SDP calls for reform of Singapore's education system

[video=youtube;bZWn8Qh6dHk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWn8Qh6dHk[/video]
 

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Our education policy is the sixth in the series of alternative policies that we have drawn up to improve the quality of life for Singaporeans. We will produce a final policy paper on the political economy.

The links for these six SDP policy papers are as follows (from left to right of the above picture):

(1) Educating for Creativity and Equality: An Agenda for transformation
http://yoursdp.org/_ld/0/12_SDP_Education_P.pdf

(2) Building A People: Sound Policies for a Secure Future
http://yoursdp.org/_ld/0/8_Building_a_Peop.pdf

(3) Housing A Nation: Holistic Policies for Affordable Homes
http://yoursdp.org/_ld/0/7_Housing_a_Natio.pdf

(4) The SDP National Healthcare Plan: Caring For All Singaporeans
http://yoursdp.org/_ld/0/5_sdp-national-he.pdf

(5) A Singapore For All Singaporeans: Addressing the Concerns of the Malay Community
http://yoursdp.org/_ld/0/10_A_Singapore_for.pdf

(6) Ministers' Salary: Ethical Salaries For A Public Service Centered Government
http://yoursdp.org/_ld/0/2_ethical-salarie.pdf
 
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废除小六会考,延迟分流制度和培养创造力

http://yoursdp.org/publ/chinese_language/41-1-0-1458

Added on: Wednesday, 21 May 2014

by the Singapore Democrats

新加坡民主党昨天推出了我党的替代性教育政策。我党探讨了我国教育体制目前所面临的许多问题和挑战,并阐明了我党如何去克服这种种的问题。

徐淑真女士提出了我国中小学系统如何扼杀学生的创造力和造成现今新加坡社会日益扩大的不等式。她建议以下补救措施:

1. 培养创造性思维

学生们可通过独立思考和从犯错中建立信心,并坚持不向失败低头。教师必须经过培训,以便能帮助学生发展创意技巧:

鼓励学生提出问题和表达个人意见,而不是被动地吸收课堂材料
制止惩罚性行动和批评学生所犯的错误
促进学生之间讨论各自的想法和答案的多种可能性
教导学生如何批判性地评价思路的技巧
提高对于创造性工作需要时间发展的认知

2. 取消小六会考和延缓分流制度

如果我们继续强调学生考试和分流的激烈竞争,那么培养创新能力的努力将会受到阻碍。从一次考试中评估小学生的能力和才华是没有好处的。

通过废除小六会考和延缓分流制度至高中,学生将能获得更全面的教育,而不是遭受可怕的心理创伤,甚至萌起自杀的念头。

3. 拓宽课程设置,降低教学大纲

民主党将提倡更广泛的科目,包括分配时间给予音乐欣赏、演讲、戏剧、文学、艺术和体育。学生在传统科目的上课时间大致上是相同的​​(约每星期三小时)。

学生也将享有固定时间参与促进相互沟通和团队合作的活动,而不是盲目的个体相互竞争。这对于发展创造力是极为重要的。

每项科目的内容也将减少,从而使学生不用背负着沉重的功课。教师将必须监督和指导学生在学校完成具有复习性和锻炼性的功课。当学生放学后,他们就能够花时间与家人娱乐消遣。学生也应该能够早睡。

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4. 减少每班学生人数

研究显示小班教学能为教师和学生促进更优质的教育经验。民主党将减少每班学生人数为每班二十名。目前,很多学校有近四十人一班。

这将能协助学生在学术发展上得到必要的关注。随着学生人数的减少,照顾学生的行政工作也将逐渐减低。教育工作者将能腾出更多的时间专心教学。

5. 鼓励阅读

减少教学大纲后,学生就能腾出更多的时间享受阅读的乐趣。学生在现今制度下排斥阅读,因为它与考试息息相关。其实,阅读是能鼓励终身学习,并培养创意思维的工具之一。

根据民主党的政策,教育部将与国家图书馆管理局合作,使学校图书馆能提供国家图书馆的书籍。国家图书馆管理局将通过社区图书馆,定期地探访学校并举办讲座,以便鼓励学生培养阅读的好习惯。

6. 加长上课时间

所有学校都将采用单一上课时间制度。上课时间将延长至八小时,从上午八点至下午四点结束。如前所述,学生将能利用上课时间完成他们的作业。这也将能让教师督促学生完成功课,从而排除补习的必要性。

7. 提供学校午餐

教育部将安排学校提供健康午餐给予学生。这将确保贫困家庭学生能够摄取健康发展所需的营养。

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8. 推行专用教师系统

民主党将推行专用教师系统,将其中一位老师分配到一个班级,并让这位老师从小学一至三年级带领这班学生, 然后再让另一位教师从小学四至六年级接管这班学生。

这不仅能让学生与老师和同学们建立更好的粘结力,还能够提供更多时间来建立家长与教师之间的信任与合作。

9 . 废除学校和班级排名

我党不赞同在编排班级时,把优良成绩和不理想成绩的学生分开的作法。家长被逼压迫自身的孩子取得比其他同学更好的成绩,使他们能够进入比较良好的班级和学校,并最终能促使他们步上优质的职业道路。

这种做法是不利于孩子的身心健康的。比较学生和班级的考试成绩只会导致校长、教师和家长(甚至学生自己)沉浸在有损教育真正目的盲目竞争,而不是达到自我完善和自我实现的目的。

徐淑真女士还强调了其他的措施,包括提升教师地位和培训、恢复原能力倾向测试、根据各自中学的强项重新组织这些学校,并让家长参与教育。

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幼儿和特殊需要教育

民主党财政张慧芳女士谈及幼儿教育和特殊教育。她说,这两方面的教育制度应该被国有化。

目前,许多贫困家庭因经济困难,而不把孩子送到幼儿园。这使他们的孩子在进入小学一年级时处于劣势。

通过国有化学前教育,我们能确保每一个孩子将获得他们所需要的启蒙和在进入小学时,能够公平地与其他人竞争。

此外,学前教育工作者将在国家教育学院接受广泛的教育心理学和儿童早期发展的培训。目前,许多在我们幼儿园的照顾者缺乏足够的培训和不具备所需的资格。


同样的,在民主党的计划下,政府将从志愿福利团体接管需要特殊教育的儿童,并为这些学生提供重返主流教育的后盾。

大专教育

詹姆斯·戈麦斯博士提出了我党高等教育的替代政策。他说,政府不应该干预大学的施政。

目前,教育部还在控制新加坡大学生毕业生的人数。维基解密泄露的文件揭发了人民行动党已规定我国大学毕业生只能占我国人口的百分之二十三至二十五的事实。

他也对外国学生大量地涌入我国的课题提出警告。他举例说,自二零一零年以来,约五万名外国学生每年进来的,而出国深造的新加坡学生仅有两万人。

我党建议取消现今的外国学生学费资助计划。这项计划每年为外国学生资助了大约两亿元。

当国外学生在享受这种待遇时,许多贫困的本地学生却无法负担大学教育。我党不只要废除这项外国学生学费资助计划,而且还要为本地学生提供免息贷款计划。

戈麦斯博士还强调了本地学者不满外籍员工在我国大学占不成比例的课题。

为了取得平衡,我党的新加坡人民优先政策将被用来确保新加坡学者优先获得学术职务和提供资助给那些想继续追求学术职务的毕业生。
 
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People give you an offer of going mainstream and SDP is rejecting it?
A few hundred members, years of hard work, all the policy papers going down the drain just because of 15 minutes.

Would you like to do a re-think?
 

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People give you an offer of going mainstream and SDP is rejecting it?
A few hundred members, years of hard work, all the policy papers going down the drain just because of 15 minutes.

Would you like to do a re-think?

Aiyo, brother, sorry I really do not understand what you wrote in your post above. Honestly, I really "catch no ball" and your comment is like "no head no tail" to me. Would you please kindly provide me with a bit more background information so I can understand your comment in the right context. Thanks :smile:
 

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By nominating someone to go to Hong Lim to speak, it is tantamount to rejecting the offer of a chance to discuss policies in a more effective manner, like in a quieter environment or in parliament.

It doesn't matter if the nominee is a boy or a cat, that nominee is still SDP. It is not too late to withdraw your nominee.
 
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