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Wee, Belinda Peck Lian. "Career orientations of Singaporean expatriates based in the People's Republic of China and their perceptions of the determinants of their career success." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3235430.
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Gupta, Anthea Fraser. "A study of the acquisition and use of interrogatives and questions in the English of pre-school Chinese Singaporeans." Thesis, University of York, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277209.
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Sykes, Abdel Halim. "A study of Singaporeans’ attitudes to eleven expanding circle accents of English." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9627.
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Effective communication in English between its two billion users (Crystal, 2008), requires comprehension of others’ English and a willingness to accept differences in English. While some studies have attempted to measure the attitudes of Inner Circle (IC) (Kachru, 1985) respondents towards IC Englishes, and other studies have focused on attitudes of Outer Circle (OC) and Expanding Circle (EC) respondents to IC English, there is a dearth of research on OC and EC respondents’ attitudes to non-IC English. Therefore, this study addressed the need for further research focusing on OC respondents’ attitudes to EC users’ English. Specifically, this study of 31 Singaporeans attempted to gain an understanding of their attitudes towards Expanding Circle Accents of English (ECAE). This study drew on direct and indirect approaches in language attitude research, involving a verbal-guise task using semantic differential scales to elicit attitudes to speakers on a range of solidarity and status traits, and interviews. Descriptive statistics derived from mean scores were used for quantitative analysis of the data from the verbal-guise task, while coding procedures were used for qualitative analysis of the interview data. The findings show the respondents displayed predominantly negative attitudes to eight of the eleven ECAE and slightly positive attitudes to three. Phonological features common to the ECAE, notably mispronunciation of particular phonemes and vowels added to consonant clusters, affected the respondents’ attitudes. Moreover, certain prosodic features and the perceived degree of attractiveness and assertiveness affected attitudes to the ECAE. These findings indicate accent can affect listeners’ attitude to speakers. The implications of this study have relevance to the discussions on World Englishes and English as an International Language to the extent that notions of attitude and intelligibility are central to both. Furthermore, the findings suggest attitude might be of greater significance than intelligibility when evaluating others’ English.
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Ho, Elaine Lynn-Ee. "Debating migration and citizenship in a transnational world : highly skilled' Singaporeans in London." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446313/.
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Accelerating globalisation and contemporary transnational migration impact the way that citizenship is given meaning and practised by both states and citizens. Based on a study of the Singaporean state and highly skilled Singaporeans in London, this thesis advances an argument that transnational migration opens up new avenues to think through citizenship as a distinct spatial and socio-political formation. My thesis investigates, first, the manner in which Singaporean transnational migration informs existing understandings of highly skilled migration and second, the dynamics of the relationship between transnational migration and citizenship. I utilise discourse analysis, ethnography and in-depth interviews with Singaporean policymakers, London- based Singaporean community associations and individual Singaporean transmigrants to carry out my study. This thesis develops the scholarship on middling transnationalism by drawing attention to the fluidity of migration strategies and the institutional factors that motivate 'highly skilled' Singaporean migration to London. My research findings also contribute to geographical perspectives on transnational migration and citizenship in several ways. I introduce the concept of 'emotional citizenship' through narratives of place-based belonging. However, I also argue that identity politics disrupt notions of a coherent Singaporean identity and transnational community. I further propose that mobility creates spaces of contradiction in the way that citizenly 'rights and responsibilities' are relationally constructed by the Singaporean state and its citizens. Finally, I focus on Singaporean transnational families to highlight the spatial significance of the 'Asian' extended family in relation to citizenship issues. This analysis foregrounds the mutually constituting relationship between the emotional, political and social-cultural aspects of citizenship. Whilst this thesis presents empirical reflections and policy implications that are specific to the Singaporean case study, my findings also contribute to broader theoretical formulations of transnational migration and citizenship (trans)formations.
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Kirsnan, Lalitha. "Exploring the Socio-cultural Factors, Other Barriers and Facilitators of Pro-Environmental Behaviour among Singaporeans: A Qualitative Approach." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376825.
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Despite the plethora of pro-environmental behaviour studies, a review of literature revealed a dearth of studies on pro-environmental behaviour in urban cities in Asia. Given the escalating rate of economic growth in Asian cities, environmental needs have taken a backseat prompting an urgent need to understand better how pro-environmental behaviour can be facilitated among Asian city dwellers. Secondly, there is a lack of studies exploring lay public’s perceptions of existing pro-environmental campaigns. Thirdly, there is an over-reliance on quantitative research methods in pro-environmental behaviour studies. Based on these gaps, the purpose for this research was to; firstly, explore in-depth the barriers and facilitators of pro-environmental behaviour in Singapore, an urban city in Asia. Secondly, this research aimed to understand directly from the lay public on their perceptions of pro-environmental campaigns. Thirty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with Singaporeans aged 18 years and above. The primary findings for this study were; family lays the foundation for pro-environmental behaviour to occur, environmental concern facilitates pro-environmental behaviour and infrastructure systems and work centric culture inhibit pro-environmental behaviour. In relation to pro-environmental campaign perceptions, participants were mostly found to be not in favour of pro-environmental campaigns with no personal impact on their behaviours.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept of Marketing
Griffith Business School
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Chiang, Hock Woon. "Young Singaporeans’ perspectives of compulsory military conscription : how they manage the National Service experience in relation to their education, development and careers." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10171.
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The aim of this study is to generate a substantive theory concerning how Singaporean conscripts manage their national service (NS) experience in relation to their development, education, and careers. It addresses three main research questions: What are conscripts’ perspectives on NS in relation to their personal lives and careers and their education and development needs prior to enlistment? How do conscripts perceive and cope with the two-year conscription experience? In what ways, if at all, do conscripts believe the conscription experience will influence their subsequent personal lives and careers? A grounded theory methodology was adopted. Data were collected using face-to-face interviews with a group of 21 conscripts in the Army. Other data sources included participants’ reflection journals and performance records. The major outcome of the study was the generation of the Theory of Selective Commitment, which posits that commitment (with its associated features) to NS is the key factor that determines how conscripts manage, appraise, and assimilate their NS experiences. Among the major findings are that - how the conscripts internalised the significance of service in NS was dependent on how the conscripts coped during training, how they appraised their NS experience and how they assimilated their roles as citizen soldiers. This in turn determined their level of commitment in terms of time and energy devoted to serving NS. Accordingly, a typology comprised of five types of conscripts was identified: advocates, adventurers, careerists, play-safes and challengers. Major implications for policy formulation, practice, and future research are drawn from the study.
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Lim, Yi-En. "A linguistic and critical study of selected works by two Singaporean writers : heteroglossia in Singaporean society." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296809.
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Lee, Kok Sonk. "Physical activity patterns of Singaporean adolescents /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19123.pdf.
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Perks, Samuel. "Representations of precarity in Singaporean historical novels." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18805/.
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This thesis analyses Singaporean historical novels for their capacity to engage the ‘Singapore Story’ in dialogue, and for their representation of precarity as part of the narrative of national economic development. By exploring the motifs of the ‘Garden City’, the ‘Island Nation’ and the ‘global city’, I examine the interrelation of the individual, family, community, national, regional, and global frames of reference in these texts. Precarity is analysed as a phenomenon with a long history and a wide geographical spread, and as a consequence, the ‘uniqueness’ of Singapore as an economic model is shown to be challenged by historical fiction’s tendency towards historical nuance and complexity. Questions of genre, form, and perspective are considered, and the redemptive possibilities raised by works of historical fiction are contextualised and appraised.
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Cheung, Yuk-ting, and 張旭廷. "The glocal queer in Singaporean gay writing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46701114.
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Choong, Gary K. G. "Preaching the pilgrim Psalms for the Singaporean audience." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Aiyer, Subramaniam. "From colonial segregation to postcolonial 'integration' - constructing ethnic difference through Singapore's Little India and the Singapore 'Indian'." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Culture, Literature and Society, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2782.
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In Singapore the state defines the parameters of 'ethnic' identity on the basis of the ideology of multiracialism, in which any particular 'ethnic' identity is subsumed under national identity and permitted expression in cultural and economic, but not political, terms. Multiracialism's appeal for the state as well as for its citizens lies in its objective: social cohesion between and equality for the four officially recognized 'racial' groups. Nevertheless, from the viewpoint of the 'Indian' community, this thesis demonstrates how the multiple layers of meaning given to the doctrine and practice of multiracialism by various social actors and their interactions create tensions and contestations in reconciling 'ethnic' and national identity. Public expression of 'ethnic' politics is considered by the state as subversive towards the nation, although the state itself implements its ideology through a stringent regime of 'racial' management directed at every aspect of a Singaporean's social, cultural, economic and political life. The thesis addresses important issues involving 'racial' and 'ethnic' identity, modes of 'ethnic' interaction and nation building in the multiethnic and globalised context of Singapore in general and in 'Little India' in particular. This area, though theoretically democratic in nature, is embedded in state-civil society power relations, with the state setting the agenda for 'ethnic' maintenance and identity. My research interviews demonstrate the dominating and hegemonic power of the state, its paternalistic governance, and its wide network of social control mechanisms organizing 'ethnicity' in Singapore. The historical decision, made firstly by the British colonial administration and thereafter perpetuated by the nation state, to make 'race' the basis of all social classification has had far-reaching consequences. With the postcolonial state wishing to be the sole authority over 'ethnic' practices and discourse, Singaporeans' lives have been heavily conditioned by its impact, which I argue resembles to some extent the 'divide and rule' policy of the colonial regime. 'Race' as the structuring principle and accepted reality of Singapore society since colonial days is so entrenched that it has been essentialised and institutionalised by the state as well as by the people in contemporary Singapore. The terms 'race' and 'ethnicity' are used interchangeably and synonymously in daily usage, though "race" is preferred by political leaders, academics and the population at large. I will argue that with 'race' as the reference point ethnic communities that migrated from China, India and other places became socially, culturally and economically segregated and polarised from colonial days to such an extent that extensive stereotypes and prejudices have fed on their lives. Such perspectives have led to differing constructions of national identity discourses presented by the nation state based on its objectives of 'racial' integration, economic development and national identity. By way of interview and survey material I demonstrate that 'race', ethnicity and national identity as defined and managed by the state have not only been inextricably linked in the everyday lives of Singaporeans but more importantly they have resulted in a resurgence of ethnic consciousness in the last three decades or so, thereby undermining the state's attempts at national identity. My findings are based on responses by Singaporean Indians to various social engineering policies employed by the state as strategies for integrating the diverse ethnic groups and anchored on the ideologies of multiracialism, multiculturalism, multilingualism, multireligiosity and meritocracy. My respondents perceive that these policies are not proactive in fostering 'racial' integration because of growing social and economic inequalities brought about by the collision of ethnic and national identities with 'race'. They feel that the government has strayed from its declared goal of 'multiracialism', emphasized all along as critical to the strength, stability and growth of the nation. Such a situation, they argue, does not augur well for a common national identity that remains elusive in the eyes and minds of Singaporeans.
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Woo, Lai W. "Australia as other in Singapore's media." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/888.
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Since the late eighteenth century, the Western observation of the East has been based on shared ontological and epistemological assumptions made by the West of the East as different and as the "Other''. Said's concept of Orientalism revolutionized Western understanding of non-Western cultures by showing how Western projected images shaped the Occidental view of the Orient. Although much has been written about the West's perception of the East as "Other'' (Eg. Said and Schirato), to date, little has been written dealing with the West from, the "Eastern" viewpoint. This thesis will examine the concepts of Orientalism (the perception of the Orient as Other) and Occidentalism, which Yao views as Orientalism in reverse, and apply it to the study of Australian I Singapore relations. It will specifically look at the way in which Australia is reported in Singapore's main English newspaper, The Straits Times. Australian events are perceived to be of importance not only to the Singaporean reader but to Australian/Singapore relations. Although the notion of the "Other" can mean different things to different people., I have chosen, for the purpose of this thesis to use Said's definition, which has to do with Western perception of the East as Other. The principle question that arises from the situation of Othering is, quite simply, why does The Straits Times, and by implication the Singapore government, choose to "Other" Australia in a remarkably consistent manner?
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Chew, Wendy Poh Yoke. "Consuming femininity : nation-state, gender and Singaporean Chinese women." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0135.
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My research seeks to understand ways in which English-educated Chinese women in cosmopolitan Singapore bolstered their identity while living under the influences of Confucian values, patriarchal nation-building and racial concerns. My thesis examines women who have themselves been lost in translation when they were co-opted into the creation of a viable state after 1965. Often women are treated as adjuncts in the patriarchal state, particularly since issues of gender are not treated with the equality they deserve in the neo-Confucian discourse. This thesis takes an unconventional approach to how women have been viewed by utilizing primary sources including Her World and Female magazines from the 1960s and 1990s, and subsequent material from the blogosphere. I analyze images of women in these magazines to gain an understanding of how notions of gender and communitarianism/race intersect. By looking at government-sponsored advertising, my work also investigates the kind of messages the state was sending out to these women readers. My examination of government-sponsored advertisements, in tandem with the existing mainstream consumer advertising directed at women provides therefore a unique historical perspective in understanding the kinds of pressures Singaporean women have faced. Blogging itself is used as a counterpoint to show how new spaces have opened up for those who have felt constricted in certain ways by the authorities, women included. It would be fair to say that women?s magazines and blogging have served as ways for women to bolster their self worth, despite the counter-argument that some highly idealized and unhealthy images of women are purveyed. The main target group of glossy women?s magazines is English-educated women readers who are, by virtue of the Singapore?s demographics, mostly Chinese.
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Yeou, Peter Khor Sinn. "The occupational aspirations of Singaporean students : circumscription and compromise /." Online version, 1994. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/34444.
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Chye, Eleanor. "Love, money and power in the Singaporean household economy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340788.
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Lim, Teck Huat Michael. "Teachers' leadership aspirations : career decision-making among Singaporean teachers." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8922.
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The central research problem is the insufficient supply of teachers opting for promotion to middle-level leadership positions in Singapore secondary schools, where about 66% are filled. This shortage limits the effectiveness of school management and reduces the flow of leaders aspiring to vice-principalship/ principalship. The study generates a model by addressing two research questions: (1) What influences affect secondary school teachers’ decision-making as to whether to aspire to middle-level school leadership? (2) How do these influences affect the career aspirations of Singaporean secondary school teachers? Using the interpretivist paradigm, case study approach, and content analysis methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a stratified sample of 20 participants. The investigation sought teachers’ perceptions of middle-level school leadership (compared to teaching) and their career aspirations, and identified the associative influences on their career decision-making. Such influences can be grouped into the categories of personal, socialisation and environmental influences, with each linked to two qualitatively different categories: teaching and leadership influences. Teachers’ career decision making is affected by ‘personal’ influences, resulting from innate attributes and pre-service experiences. Interactions with friends, family and significant others also give rise to ‘socialisation’ influences. ‘Environmental’ influences result from home and school environments. Teachers at different career stages (beginning teachers (0-3 years), more mature teachers (3-5 years), more senior teachers (beyond 5 years)) are more susceptible to particular influences; for example beginning teachers prefer honing pedagogical skills than doing administrative tasks. Teachers progress through these career stages and experience the influences identified. These influences affect individuals differently, for example additional remuneration may be less attractive for more established senior teachers compared to beginning teachers. Teachers’ decision-making processes regarding leadership aspirations lie at the heart of the Model of Selective Appeal, so named because particular influences on whether to opt for leadership selectively appeal, or otherwise, to individual teachers.
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Bradford, Jessica. "Haw Par Villa: Representations and Remediation of Singaporean Culture." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22498.
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In this thesis I describe how the negotiations of my cultural identity as a mixed-race individual has motivated the subject and material methodologies of my practice, noting in particular how my anxieties about being mixed race has lead me to critically engage with concepts of race, nationality and history. This thesis explores the lingering colonial ideology of essentialised race in contemporary discourse, the invention of nationality and the construction of History, and examines how these constructions affect negotiations of cultural identity and the sense of belonging for mixed race and bicultural individuals. This paper contextualises my practice in relation to artists Jason Wing and Lindy Lee, exploring how their hybrid cultural identities conceptually and materially inform their work. Focusing on Lindy Lee’s early work, in which the process of the ‘photocopy’ stands as a metaphor for cultural ‘disconnection’, and linking it to my material processes of remediation, which likewise questions notions of authenticity and origins while symbolizing my own sense of cultural ‘disconnection’ as a mixed race individual. This paper also studies the practice of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen, whose work negotiates concepts of identity, historical narratives, representation and origins. His work is pertinent to my final body of work Haw Par Villa, which questions concepts of race, national identity and cultural representation in the context of Singapore, my home country.
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Koh, Ker Yuan (Edmund). "The adoption of open source software by Singaporean companies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/20496/1/Edmund_Koh_Ker_Yuan_Thesis.pdf.
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Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry. While its origins trace back to the start of the software industry, the recent success of the Linux operation system, Apache web server or the Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser provide impetus to the growth of interest in this movement. However, while a number of studies have been conducted on its development, few have provided empirical evidence of its adoption within the South East Asian context. This study aims to investigate factors leading to the adoption of Open Source Software in Singaporean Organisations. The research has found that the adoption of Open Source Software is driven by the perception of a cost advantage. The organisations interviewed have acknowledged cost as being one of their biggest concerns and top priorities. While costs were stated to be of major concern to the organisations, objective measures of cost such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) were rarely used by the organisations studied. This perception of cost saving is found to be led by industry sources such as publications, conferences and websites. The next significant finding is the need for increased open source software skills in the industry. One of the major drivers of Open Source Software Adoption in the organisations is that they posses pre-existing skills in Open Source Software use. This enables them to better mitigate risk and to lower their training costs. The final principal finding is that Open Source Software appears to be used mainly in systems infrastructure applications. Organisations reported a large degree of satisfaction including increased stability, scalability and cost effectiveness. Issues remain with Open Source Software’s manageability, its quality of support and ease of use.
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Koh, Ker Yuan (Edmund). "The adoption of open source software by Singaporean companies." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/20496/.
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Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry. While its origins trace back to the start of the software industry, the recent success of the Linux operation system, Apache web server or the Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser provide impetus to the growth of interest in this movement. However, while a number of studies have been conducted on its development, few have provided empirical evidence of its adoption within the South East Asian context. This study aims to investigate factors leading to the adoption of Open Source Software in Singaporean Organisations. The research has found that the adoption of Open Source Software is driven by the perception of a cost advantage. The organisations interviewed have acknowledged cost as being one of their biggest concerns and top priorities. While costs were stated to be of major concern to the organisations, objective measures of cost such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) were rarely used by the organisations studied. This perception of cost saving is found to be led by industry sources such as publications, conferences and websites. The next significant finding is the need for increased open source software skills in the industry. One of the major drivers of Open Source Software Adoption in the organisations is that they posses pre-existing skills in Open Source Software use. This enables them to better mitigate risk and to lower their training costs. The final principal finding is that Open Source Software appears to be used mainly in systems infrastructure applications. Organisations reported a large degree of satisfaction including increased stability, scalability and cost effectiveness. Issues remain with Open Source Software’s manageability, its quality of support and ease of use.
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Broinowski, Alison Elizabeth, and alison broinowski@anu edu au. "About face : Asian representations of Australia." The Australian National University. Faculty of Asian Studies, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20030404.135751.
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This thesis considers the ways in which Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of what is typically Australian. It reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism in the twentieth century, and considers how Occidentalist strategies have come to be used to exclude and marginalise Australia. A historical survey outlines the origins of representations of Australia in each of the ten Asian countries, detecting the enduring influence both of past perceptions and of the interests of each countrys opinion leaders. Three test cases evaluate these findings in the light of events in the late twentieth century: the first considers the response in the region to the One Nation party, the second compares that with opinion leaders reaction to the crisis in East Timor; and the third presents a synthesis of recent Asian Australian fiction and what it reveals about Asian representations of Australia from inside Australian society. The thesis concludes that Australian policies and practices enable opinion leaders in the ten countries to construct representations of Australia in accordance with their own priorities and concerns, and in response to their agendas of Occidentalism, racism, and regionalism.
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Sin, Chih Hoong. "Ethnic residential segregation in Singapore's public housing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326831.
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Yang, Peidong. ""Foreign talent" : desire and Singapore's China scholars." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:176d27e0-0554-4429-94eb-f706792accd5.
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This thesis addresses the “foreign talent” situation in Singapore with an ethnographic account of the lived experiences of immigrant PRC students on scholarships, or “PRC scholars.” For some two decades, the Singapore government has annually recruited middle school students from China in their hundreds, selecting them through tests and interviews, granting them full scholarships at either pre-undergraduate or undergraduate level, and, very often, “bonding” them to work subsequently in Singapore for a number of years. Wooed and appropriated in such a way as prized potential human capital, PRC scholars exemplify the Singapore state’s desire for “foreign talent.” In the first decade of the twenty-first century, as the influx of all manners of “foreign talent” into the small city-state gathered pace, local sentiments and discourses of resentment arose. The local-vs-“foreign talent” problem became a serious strain on a city and people proud of their cosmopolitanism. This thesis analyzes the “foreign talent” situation through the ethnographic “macro-trope” of desire. It argues that “foreign talent” is a site of convergence and divergence, collusion and collision, accommodation and contestation, fulfillment and failure of various individual, sociocultural, and political desires and longings. Through the lens of desire, and its psychoanalytic undertones and insights, this thesis looks ethnographically into the PRC scholars’ “foreign talent” journeys in nuanced ways. Based on ethnographic fieldworks carried out in a Chinese middle school and a Singaporean university, the thesis shows how Chinese students are constituted as specific subjects of desire, and how they subsequently develop certain perceptions, attitudes, and stereotypes about the local “other” as well as about themselves after arriving in Singapore as “foreign talent.” Infused with multifarious desires, the PRC scholars’ experiences are often characterized by angst and dissatisfaction; yet it is also argued that generative subjective transformations take place precisely amidst these dynamics and pragmatics of desiring. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to make possible an ethical re-imagination of the “foreign talent” situation in Singapore from the perspective of desire; to provide an account of the so far little-studied Chinese migrant students in the context of Singapore; and to speak more broadly to the cultural and subjective dimensions of human experiences in the context of educational mobility, identity politics, and globalization.
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Subramaniam, Ganakumaran. "Ideological stylistics : 'collative' explorations in Malaysian and Singaporean fictional discourse." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313230.
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Lim, Lisa Su Li. "Reading and Spelling Intervention in Singaporean Children with Down syndrome." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14375.
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It is important for children with Down syndrome to achieve their full potential with regards to literacy skills. This behoves educators, clinicians, researchers, parents, and policy makers to ensure that children with Down syndrome receive suitable intervention. There has been a growing number of literacy intervention studies for children with Down syndrome. However, there is wide variability in the quality of the research that has been conducted. Further investigation concerning efficacious literacy programs in school aged children with Down syndrome is required. In addition, research into the oral reading behaviours of school aged children with Down syndrome and their caregivers during semistructured shared book reading is yet to be reported in the literature. This thesis is comprised of five chapters that aim to address these gaps in the research base. Chapter one provides an overview of Down syndrome in Singapore, the theoretical models of reading aloud and spelling of single words, as well as phonological awareness and its relation to reading and spelling in children with Down syndrome. Chapter one also gives a brief review of literacy intervention programs relating to children with DS, and describes some of the literature on the shared book reading behaviours of preschool children with Down syndrome and typically developing children. Chapter two reports empirical research describing the effectiveness of a structured literacy intervention program called Making Up Lost Time in Literacy (MULTILIT, 2007a). The MULTILIT program was used with a view to improve the phonological awareness, word reading and word spelling skills of 15 children with Down syndrome over 12 weeks (Study 1). Eight children with Down syndrome (treatment group) were compared with seven suitably matched children with Down syndrome (wait control group). Postintervention, within-participant comparisons for the treatment group showed significant improvements in sound blending and word reading. Between-participant comparisons showed that children in the treatment group made progress in sound blending and word reading compared to the wait control group. As a whole (n =15), significant improvements were seen in phonological awareness (sound isolation, sound blending, sound deletion), word reading, and word spelling following intervention. Chapter three reports empirical research examining the shared book reading behaviours of mothers and their children with Down syndrome (Study 2). The three most frequent reading behaviours displayed by children with Down syndrome were real word substitutions, morpheme omissions, and partial or whole word omissions. Mothers’ three most frequent reading behaviours included providing the correct word and print related information, as well as ignoring their child’s reading errors. Additionally, mothers were observed to focus more on reading accuracy rather than comprehension monitoring. Chapter four reports empirical research examining the shared book reading behaviours of five children with Down syndrome before and after the MULTILIT program, at group level and at the individual level (Study 3). At group level, a statistically significant reduction was seen in reading errors and shared book reading fluency improved significantly postintervention. In addition, individual case studies of the children’s text level reading performance are discussed. The final chapter of this thesis discusses the overall findings of these studies. The strengths and limitations of the empirical studies are outlined. The chapter concludes with suggestions for future research. This thesis comprises of three empirical studies (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) which may be submitted as separate manuscripts for publication. Thus, some repetition of the background narrative review is inevitable.
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Tan, Renée Hui Ling. "The native and the new : tense stories on Singaporean ground." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738551.
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Siew, Weng-Hin. "Industrial restructuring in an Asian newly industrialising country : Singapore's response to a changing world." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.480720.
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Wirell, Viktoria. "Påverkan av förnybar energi på Singapores energisäkerhet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Energisystem, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-110918.
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Singapore är ett av världens mest tätbefolkade länder och har samtidigt en elkonsumtion per capita som är en av de högsta i världen. Landet har inga egna energiresurser utan för att klara av sin höga elkonsumtion är de i stor utsträckning beroende av import av fossila bränslen, främst naturgas importerad i gasledningar från Malaysia och Indonesien. En konsekvens av detta är att Singapores har låg energisäkerhet. Energisäkerhet innebär att energiförsörjningen ska vara prisvärd, pålitlig och tillräcklig. Med sitt stora beroende av importerade fossila bränslen är Singapore utsatt för flera energisäkerhetsrisker vilket kan få många förödande konsekvenser. Att förnybar energi kan bidra till miljömässiga fördelar lyfts ofta fram, men hur förnybar energi kan bidra till bättre energisäkerhet är mindre välkänt. Det finns flera energisäkerhetsrisker relaterade till att använda fossila bränslen och förnybar energi kan därmed, i de länder där rätt förutsättningar finns, minska dessa energisäkerhetsrisker. Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka om förnybara energikällor kan bidra till en säkrare elförsörjning i Singapore. För att göra detta har teori kring Singapore, energisäkerhet och olika förnybara energikällor sammanställts. De förnybara energikällor som har undersökts är vindkraft, vattenkraft, geotermisk energi, solkraft och biokraft. Den teoretiska grunden har sedan använts för att analysera möjligheterna för Singapore att använda förnybara energikällor till att förbättra landets energisäkerhet. Den slutsats som uppsatsen resulterat i är att det finns vissa förnybara energikällor som kan bidra till en säkrare elförsörjning i Singapore. Singapores geografiska förutsättningar är ofördelaktiga för användning av vindkraft, vattenkraft och geotermisk energi och dessa kan därmed inte användas till att förbättra energisäkerheten i Singapore. Däremot kan en utökning av elproduktionen från solkraft och biokraft bidra till en säkrare elförsörjning.Singapore is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. At the same time the country has an electricity consumption that is among the highest in the world in relation to the population. They have no indigenous energy resources and are therefore dependent on import of fossil fuels to handle their high electricity consumption. Most of their electricity is generated from natural gas which has been imported in pipelines from Malaysia and Indonesia. A consequence of Singapore’s heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels is that they have low energy security. Energy security means that the energy supply should be affordable, reliable and adequate. With its heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels, Singapore is exposed to several energy security risks. These energy security risks could result in detrimental consequences for Singapore. The environmental benefits of renewable energy are well known, but how renewable energy can contribute to a better energy security is less known. There are several energy security risks related to the use of fossil fuels and renewable energy can therefore, in the countries that have the right conditions, decrease these risks. The purpose of this thesis has been to examine if renewable energy can contribute to a more secure electricity supply in Singapore. To do this, theory regarding Singapore, energy security and different renewable energy sources has been collected. The renewable energy sources that have been examined are wind power, hydropower, geothermal energy, solar power and bioenergy. The theoretical background has then been used to analyze the possibility of using renewable energy sources to improve the energy security in Singapore. The conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that some of the renewable energy sources can contribute to a more secure electricity supply in Singapore. Singapore’s geographical conditions are unfavorable for the use of wind power, hydropower and geothermal energy and these energy sources can therefore not be used to improve the energy security in Singapore. The situation regarding solar power and bioenergy is however different and an increase of the electricity production from these sources can contribute to a more secure electricity supply.
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Chua, Ek Kay. "The emergence of the Nanyang style and its role in the regionalism of ASEAN countries /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030917.093855/index.html.
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Poon, Jiawen. "Assimilation as an impact of globalization a comparative study of women's magazines in Singapore and the United States /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588778911&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 27, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Hong, Junhao, Cassata, Mary B. Includes bibliographical references.
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Rodrigues, Natasha Irene. "A study of the factors influencing adolescent Singaporean students' career decisions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ36075.pdf.
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Tan, Doreen Seng Keow. "Guanxi as a basis of managerial morality among Singaporean Chinese managers." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274270.
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Shin, Priscilla Zhi-Xian. "The Semiotics and Social Practices of Constructing a "Proper" Singaporean Identity." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10982557.
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This dissertation investigates the semiotic resources that Singaporeans combine, balance, and negotiate in order to enact a “proper” Singaporean identity. The analysis considers a variety of semiotic resources, ranging from fine-grained phonetic variables to language varieties to education or career paths. The meaningful organization and use of these semiotic resources are situated within Singapore’s broader sociopolitical discourses of nationhood, that is, how Singaporeans perceive themselves as a nation and citizens of that nation according to participation—or non-participation—in institutional discourses. I show how the notion of being “proper” as well as evaluations of “properness” are associated with social and linguistic practices that index (Silverstein 2003) meanings of being global and local, often simultaneously or in balance. Furthermore, this work extends Eckert’s (2008) concept of indexical fields , acknowledging that variables index multiple social meanings, any one of which have the potential to be activated in use. In the enactment of a “proper” identity, I investigate how these meanings are continuously co-constructed in interaction (Bucholtz and Hall 2005).
The (re-)production of “proper” ways of speaking and being are part of the processes of enregisterment (Agha 2007), via a semiotic repertoire, which is then available for public circulation and performable cultural models of behavior. This work examines the range and flexibility of resources that constitute a semiotic repertoire through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses—connecting macro-level discourses, such as the circulation of sociocultural stereotypes, to variation in speakers’ day to day language use, including micro-level investigations, such as the perception of voice onset time in Singapore English. This work highlights the many ways in which social identities and meanings are contextualized in and emerge out of interactions that regiment and discipline the behaviors of the self and others.
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Phillips, Marianne, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "The Internationalisation of Singapore Television: Singaporean Regional and Global Perspectives and Contexts." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040818.141118.
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In this study l investigate the Singaporean characteristics of broadcast media internationalisation. I ask the question "e
Does Internationalisation lead to homogenisation and commercialisation of the television culture in Singapore or does it give way to more diversity, thus stimulating cultural differentiation?"e
. I articulate the constraints and/or tensions of supranational regulation, foreign policy, regional and intraregional alliances upon communication and the cultural and social effects as they impact on and respond to production, programming, scheduling and output in Singapore.
I explain how Singaporean Television media culture takes part in the processes of globalisation, and how it challenges existing cultures and creates new and alternative symbolic and cultural communities, within the context of regional communication.
In this thesis 1 conclude that whilst Singapore definitely does not have equity in information, wealth or resource flows it is attempting to liberalise. To do so, the government recognises that serious inadequacies and imbalances must be addressed and that the path to greater political and economic growth is through an actively informed public. Despite regulatory restrictions on data flow and technical and service ownership, Singapore is encouraging regional alliances, depoliticising cultural differences and concentrating on economic imperatives to build mutual knowledge and understanding, multilateral agreements, collective ownership, mutual exchange and cooperative dissemination.
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Wai, Benny Lim Kok. "The human lefts series : postmodern self-reflexivity and post-independence Singaporean theater." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2012. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/the-human-lefts-series-postmodern-selfreflexivity-and-post-independence-singaporean-theater(3fb839d9-511f-4735-abb5-b800165e0caf).html.
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This critical review serves as a significant formal documentation of the postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the postmodern and post-independence Singapore. Through the Human Lefts Series, which I conceptualised and performed between 2005 and 2009, we are able to look at postmodern Singapore theatre beyond issues relating to the loss of cultural and historical past, which might not be significant for those who were born after 1965. The situation is such that, currently, there is no formal documentation of postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the Singapore context, especially theatre pieces responding to postmodern, post-independence Singapore. This critical review aims to detail analysis made from the Human Lefts Series and its significant contribution to the study of self-reflexivity. More relevant issues to the postmodern Singapore include the current political situation, alternative sexualities (homosexuality and transexualism explored in the Human Lefts Series), and the effect of 'cloning' and appropriation being the key cultural dominant of Singapore. By the end 2009, a total of four pieces of works under the Human Lefts umbrella was showcased to the public. Three main outputs will be discussed in this review. The study aims to answer the following research questions: I. What is self-reflexivity in the postmodern, post-independence Singapore context? 2. How has the Human Lefts Series responded to the self-reflexivity defined in this research? 3. How has the concept of self-reflexivity affected the process of creating the Human Lefts Series? 4. What further inferences can be made, in relation to postmodern theories, from the process of creating the Human Lefts Series? This portfolio also highlights the absence of a physical rehearsal process for the Human Lefts Series. With a clear performance structure, a performer can walk into the performance and begin the delivery of the performance immediately. There is also a discussion on the functions of a performer in a postmodern self-reflexive theatre, in relation to Roland Barthes' essay on The Death of the Author. The performer's experience cannot be totally separated from the character in a postmodern self-reflexive performance. The portfolio consists of the main body of text (the review), a set of appendices and the video recording of the three research outputs. It is recommended to watch the video recording (performances) prior to reading this review.
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Soh, Li Khee Christine. "Influences of context and culture on Singaporean strategic investment decision making practises." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14234.
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This thesis investigates the interplay of context with culture on strategic investment decision (SID) making practises in strategic management accounting, strategic management, cross cultural management and global strategic management research in Singapore using three research questions. These research questions commence from an inter-country perspective on SID making and narrow down to the theme of foreign versus domestic investments. The three research questions are: Research question 1(RQ1): Do strategic management accounting, strategic management and cultural aspects vary across Singaporean companies in SID making? Research Question 2 (RQ 2): Can SID differences be explained by using a four way categorisation of firms? Research Question 3 (RQ3): Do decision making practises for international SIDs differ from domestic SIDs? The first research question aims to determine country versus context specific SID making practises using Singapore as the research context. Having acknowledged unique country specific influences on SID making practises in the analysis conducted using the first research question, the second research question segments the Singaporean SIDs in conjunction with the international SIDs into four contextual categories using unique contextual differences that are highlighted in the analysis. The third research question aims to ascertain unique aspects of SID research that can be applied to global strategic management research. To address RQ3, the findings from RQ1 and RQ2 are consolidated in tandem with global strategic management research in order to distinguish between foreign direct investments versus domestic investments in SID making. Drawing on Singapore as the empirical focus for fieldwork, a multi-tiered case analysis system is used. The methods chapter illustrates the pilot study and thirty case studies that are conducted over two years over three stages with representative companies from the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. In the detailed case study approach taken by the researcher; web-based research, questionnaire modifications, interviews, field visits, factory observations and financial reports collection are duplicated in Stages one to three to ensure comparability with the previous phases. In the discussion section, the dominating themes from the results chapters are used as comparison with multi-country research in order to investigate the three research questions in detail. In total, nineteen expectations that are derived from the literature review covering the dimensions of strategic management accounting, strategic management, cross cultural management and global strategic management are extracted and compared with actual SID making practises exhibited in the 30 case studies. Cultural similarities within the thirty Singaporean SIDs are contrasted with unique cultural features of U.S, U.K, Japanese and German firms using RQ1. Beyond financial variables, culture specific differences are specifically highlighted for the dimensions of intuition, power distance relationships, long term orientation and minimum financial versus strategic emphasis in the Singaporean sample. In RQ1’s analysis, it is found that Singaporean firms exhibit the highest degree of future orientated behaviour, power distance relationships in conjunction with lower levels of assertiveness and in-group collectivism when contrasted with U.K, U.S, Japanese and German firms. However, some contextual differences are apparent within the Singaporean sample which RQ2 seeks to explain. In RQ2’s analysis, the thirty firms are structured into Market Creators, Value Creators, Refocusers and Restructurers where marked distinctions in financial flexibility, financial expectations and attitude towards financial targets are found. Further observations found that firms in the tertiary sector favour readiness in SID making, as compared to planned SID making approaches in the secondary and primary sectors. Hence, it is concluded that culture and context both play important roles in different aspects in SID making. RQ3’s analysis aims to show subtle distinctions between overseas and domestic SIDs. It is found that firms investing in overseas SIDs are inclined to be longer-term in their SID making approach than firms who have a higher propensity to invest in domestic SIDs. The approaches for host country selection differ for the 4 contextual categories. The Market Creators tend to be influenced by the availability of closeknitted partners when investing overseas. In contrast, the Refocusers and Restructurers are highly customer-driven whereas the Value Creators are attracted by the host country’s market potential. From the literature summary of the four unique dimensions pertinent to SID making, a pre-conceptual framework is derived. In the discussion section, the pre-conceptual framework is restructured into a post-conceptual framework where themes common to the Singaporean and multi-country SIDs that have been used for comparative analysis are emphasised. This framework concludes the thesis by combining both contextual and cultural themes using research from the eastern and western contexts.
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Sng, Khai Imm. "Callous-Unemotional Traits, Negative Parenting Practices and Conduct Problems in Singaporean Families." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17318.
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Research into callous-unemotional traits is largely limited to studies in Western countries (e.g., Waller, Gardner & Hyde, 2013). Three studies were thus conducted to examine CU traits in Asian culture. The first study reviewed existing research on CU traits in Asian countries based on key findings from Western countries: if CU traits in Asia were associated with increased severity of conduct problems, neurodevelopmental/emotion-related correlates, environmental risk factors and treatment outcomes. Findings from 15 samples provided some evidence of similar risk processes between Asian and Western samples, but also indicated some differences, e.g., associations between CU traits and anxiety or peer influence. In the second study, it was predicted that CU traits would moderate the associations between negative parenting and child aggression in a sample of clinic-referred children, based on findings of Yeh, Chen, Raine, Baker and Jacobson (2011) and differences in heritability of conduct problems between children with high and low CU traits (e.g., Dadds et al., 2006). Psychological aggressive parenting was associated with reactive and proactive aggression. Physically aggressive parenting was more strongly associated with proactive aggression among low-CU children than high-CU children. In the third study, it was predicted that there would be moderate stability of CU traits based on findings of genetic influence on CU traits (e.g., Viding et al., 2005) and bidirectional associations between CU traits and negative parenting. Contrary to predictions, our sample of clinic-referred children showed low stability of CU traits over a six-year period, and no bidirectional link between CU traits and negative parenting. Only parental psychological aggression predicted changes in CU traits. These findings raise the need for ongoing research into CU traits in Asian cultures.
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Lim, Stephen Chin Ming. "Asian Biblical hermeneutics as multicentric dialogue : towards a Singaporean way of reading." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2017. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/asian-biblical-hermeneutics-as-multicentric-dialogue(a5c5fd43-270c-4e07-bd6b-412442d61364).html.
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In this thesis, I propose a way of reading the Bible in the context of Singapore which is my country of origin. My understanding of context draws in what decolonial thinkers, Anibal Quijano (2007) and Walter Mignolo (2012) have argued to be the modern/colonial world system and social epistemologist, Jose Medina’s (2006) polyphonic contextualism. This allows me to better situate the contextual reader within current networks of knowledge production and argue for the goals of reading the Bible in Singapore to be transformative praxis and identity formation. With the understanding of Singapore as an epistemic terrain embedded in global and local networks of knowledge production, I outline the hermeneutical norms that control contextual reading of the Bible in chapter 2. In order to better aid the task of constructing this hermeneutic, I also survey scholarship on biblical hermeneutics in chapter 3 both in the West and Asia to distil important considerations and useful reading strategies. With these considerations in mind, I propose that reading the Bible in context requires at the metatheoretical level a negotiation between western, Asian and Singaporean standpoints in chapter 4. This is facilitated by a conscientisation framework that checks the posture of specialist readers in relation to nonspecialist readers in a specific context so as to ensure submerged voices are not silenced in favour of dominant epistemologies; and a conversation framework that facilitates understanding the Other that tries to avoid Orientalist and nativist/nationalist dangers. In chapter 5, I then test the proposed method through reading the stories of Daniel to see the discursive effects such a reading strategy has on issues I outline in the analysis of my context pertaining to praxis and identity. In my final chapter, I reflect on how the reading exercise impacts on my proposed understanding of Bible and Singapore. I show that it fundamentally shifts the understanding of the Bible to what Justin Ukpong (2002) argues to be a ‘site of struggle’ and an inclusive canon that is hospitable to the many voices, especially of the marginalised in my context of Singapore.
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Tan, Lin Yeok. "An analysis of Singapore's dynamic comparative advantage, 1970-83." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305163.
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Leggett, Christopher Joseph. "Strategic Choice and the Transformations of Singapore's Industrial Relations." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365411.
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The aim of the thesis is to test the usefulness of the strategic choice model for explaining the transformations of industrial relations in a country other than the USA, in this case Singapore. Three historical transformations and a progression of the third are discernible from the changes that have taken place in Singapore's industrial relations since the Peoples Action Party (PAP) was elected into office in 1959. By analysing these transformations the thesis aims to test the explanatory usefulness of the strategic choice model and thereby make a contribution to other potential international applications. In analysing and interpreting the industrial relations of a single country at least four special considerations are taken into account: 'nation' as a distinguishing criterion; the determination of who initiates the transformation strategies; the necessity to analyse the quality and intensity of the relationships of the parties with each of the transformations; the scope for strategic choices. Addressing the primary research question of the usefulness of the strategic choice model raises secondary questions. The answers to the secondary questions help in answering the primary question. The thesis adopts what may be called an 'emergent' research design, which requires an historical case study and a process of analytical induction for its methodology. The organisation of the thesis closely reflects the stages of analytical induction. The Singapore industrial relations data were collected by interviews and from primary and secondary sources. The thesis is organised into nine chapters. Chapters 1 to 4 provide the academic framework. Chapters 5 to 8 recount and analyse the phenomena of each of Singapore's three industrial relations transformations and their development since the third. Chapter 9 reviews the data of Chapters 5 to 8 and concludes that the strategic choice model becomes increasingly useful with the passage of each of the transformations and their progression.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Tan, Donald. "The impact of numeric sub-branding on Singaporean Chinese consumers : a conjoint analysis." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Management, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0029.
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[Truncated abstract] It has been argued that the demand for a product is largely dependent on price and quality (Dodds, Monroe & Grewal, 1991) and that it is possible to provide a global product with a universal brand, as consumers desire reliable and quality products at low prices (Levitt, 1983). As global companies extend their reach around the world and such “global” products become available world wide, it is important for marketers to understand if other factors play a significant role in consumers’ purchase processes, especially in Asia where cultural and social influences can be very different from Western societies . . . Since numerology is deeply rooted in Chinese culture, the present study was undertaken to examine the impact that two important numbers (4 and 8) had on Chinese consumers’ value perceptions when used in sub-brand extensions. These numbers were chosen as Ang (1997) had noted the numbers represented “death” (4) and “prosperity” (8) in Chinese numerology and, consequently, may have a negative or positive impact on the value Chinese consumers attach to a product. While there are many types of products available to consumers and possible juxtapositions of numbers are almost endless, the present study was restricted to examining the impact that the numbers 4 and 8 had on the value Chinese consumers attached to cars and mobile phones to ensure the study was manageable. The study was undertaken in Singapore, but it was hoped that the results could be translated to other Chinese markets so more cost-effective and efficient approaches could be developed for such markets.
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Chia, Liang. "Language shift in a Singaporean Chinese family and the matrix language frame model." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365765.
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Mohamed, Ali Abdul Rashid. "Teaching Singaporean working adults in diploma programmes at a privately funded educational institute." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1904.
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This Portfolio examines how adult learners at the Marketing Institute of Singapore (MIS) who are not in the mainstream educational route prefer to learn. The specific research questions were: Is adult learning distinctly different from learning in childhood; And how MIS can improve its offerings as a private education provider or PEO for adult learners enrolled in their part-time professional Sales and Marketing Diploma programme in Singapore.
In order to uncover evidence that adult learning is truly distinct and different from childhood learning, the researcher carried out an extensive literature review on books, periodicals and even speeches made by academics and/or members of Parliament in Singapore. The literature review revealed a distinct brand of adult learning called Andragogy which was a field of study propagated by respected American adult educator, Dr. Malcolm Knowles.
Primary data was gathered from a sample of 47 adult learners out of a total student population of 200 enrolled in MIS’s evening part-time Diploma in Sales and Marketing programme. The purpose of the small-scale survey was to study how adults learn and receive information from teachers at MIS. It is the contention of the present study that adult learners at MIS are different from adolescence students studying in the mainstream educational state-owned institutions and that their learning styles and need are different.
The conceptual framework of this portfolio analyses external elements like the education landscape of Singapore which is controlled by the Government of Singapore and the private education market which caters to working adults in Singapore.
The present study concludes with recommendations for further actions needed by the MIS and areas for further research.
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Lim, Sharon W. Q. "Heritage, hybridity, and the global city-state : Singapore’s Peranakan museum." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/48450.
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This thesis will demonstrate how cultural policies in Singapore are informed by underlying political and socio-economic objectives. The topic addressed is the state’s use of material culture in the Peranakan Museum to meet the demands faced by the repositioning of Singapore as a global city-state without a natural hinterland. My study will make use of the tools offered by various disciplines, including anthropology, history and sociology. This will serve to address the themes of identity construction and nationhood from different angles, while applying these concerns to public policy. It is one of the main aims of this thesis to bring together interdisciplinary scholarship alongside my original research and personal experience at the Peranakan Museum. This thesis will be organized thematically into three chapters, followed by a brief conclusion. Chapter One will centre on two important, interrelated questions: What does the museum tell us about the past of the Peranakan? And how does the museum construct the idea of Peranakan at the present moment? Chapter Two focuses on the museum’s production of nostalgia, intended to anchor Singapore’s global citizens to the nation during times of change. This chapter will also discuss the regional and global uses of Peranakan culture for national branding purposes. Finally, Chapter Three explores why the state feels as if it needs to actively interfere in resolving tensions that have resulted from the reinvention of Singapore as a global city in the twenty-first century.Arts, Faculty of
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Tan, Lay Siong, and n/a. "The Straits Times' reporting of Singapore's communication news, 1992-1995." University of Canberra. Communication, Media & Tourism, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061113.101002.
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The purpose of this study is to analyse how the Straits Times reported
Singapore's communication news between May 1992 and October 1995,
with a focus on Singapore's communication regionalisation. This study is
a modest attempt to depart from some of the approaches taken by recent
communication related studies of the Singapore experience. They tend to
focus on the domestic side of state-press relationship and the issue of
Singaporean press freedom, without sustained consideration of external
forces, such as globalisation.
This analysis provides a synthesis of secondary sources and a qualitative
content analysis of communication news in the Straits Times. The results
suggest there has been a convergence between the stories in the Straits
Times and official views about two themes - business regionalisation and
'Asian' media standards. Results suggest the government has an
extensive influence over Singapore's communication, especially with
regard to media content. Also, the analysis shows Singapore's
identification with Asia, despite bilateral and regional tensions in business
and culture, and suggests an uneasy relationship between Singapore and
the West, in particular, with the US. That is, while Singapore's business
relations with the US are good, its cultural relations are not, especially
when Singapore's practice of media standards does not accept the
American interpretation, but one based on its national interests.
This study provides a glimpse of global communication forces which
are influencing Singapore's communication development, as interpreted
in the stories from the Straits Times. Although there remains
uncertainties about Singapore's communication future, this study may
provide an insight as to whether Singapore has taken the right direction
in becoming a leading country in advocating an 'Asian voice'.
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Boon, Y. L. "Operating environment, competitive business strategies and performance of Singapore's hotels." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596766.
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This research attempts to investigate the relationships between the perceived competitiveness of the operating environment, competitive business strategies and the performances of hotels within Singapore's hotel accommodation industry. The operating environment is conceptualised using Porter's industry structural framework which comprises five competitive forces, i.e. perceived bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, perceived threat of new hotels and substitutes, and perceived rivalry amongst existing hoteliers. This research reveals that there are distinctly three strategic groups of hotels in Singapore, i.e. the 'QPS(high)', 'QPS(mid)' and 'P(low)' groups. The 'QPS(high)' groups focuses on the market, which expects luxury and could afford it. It employs, dominantly, a combination of strategies of differentiation by quality, price and support. The 'P(low)' group focuses on budget travellers and employs, dominantly, the strategy of differentiation by price. The 'QPS(mid)' group focuses on the market sandwiched by the other two groups. In identifying these strategic groups, there seems to be convergence between the 'multivariate strategic dimensional' approach and the 'self-typing paragraph' approach. In addition, the survey method and the case study method were employed to help explore why some hotels outperform others. There is a significant relationship between competitive strategies and the perceived bargaining power of buyers on the performances of hotels based on the 'ibfchot' indicators. Overall, the performances of the strategic groups, in descending order, are 'P(low)', 'QPS(high)' and 'QPS(mid)' groups. Nevertheless, each group has hotels which are successful as well as those which are less successful. Hence, membership in any strategic group does not necessarily guarantee success or failure. Financial success of hotels is, therefore, not strategy-specific. However, the successful hotels in all the strategic groups have the following characteristics, i.e., ability to align the threats of the perceived operating environment to formulate suitable competitive strategies to meet the expectations of the target market segments at relatively low operating costs; dynamic management to effectively communicate and implement the strategies formulated; and synergy of the owner's and management's business objectives.
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Lan, Ho Siew. "Office development in Singapore's prime financial district #the Golden Shoe'." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320068.
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Garsten, Caroline Nicole. "A political reading of home and family in English language Singaporean novels (1972-2002)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28916/.
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Homes and families feature in many post-independence, English-language Singaporean novels. They also have pronounced importance in Singaporean politics. In state discourses 'home' symbolizes the Singaporean nation and 'family' society. In addition, government policies are renowned for extending into the private domain. Furthermore, the national value of 'family as the basic unit of society' has been ratified by Parliament. A few published essays link portrayals of home or family in this fiction to national politics (Koh Tai Ann 1989, Philip Holden 1998 and Shirley Lim 2003). These studies often consider depictions of home or family relations in relation to whether they ultimately affirm or shake the status quo. This thesis is the first extended study to examine the potential political meanings or connotations of portrayed homes and families in over a dozen English-language Singaporean novels. It provides a thematic analysis of housing, the overlap between home and nation, inter-class and inter-racial relationships, 'filial' strains and paternalistic behaviour in a politico-historical context. The identified stances in the texts are then related to the long-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) Government's positions on these subjects. The analysis demonstrates that depictions of home and family in the selected texts can be meaningfully related to the hegemonic PAP government's policies, values, ideologies, and forms of authority. The multiple perspectives that emerge from the narratives can present more varied arguments than are commonly found in state discourses. In raising or gently alluding to different viewpoints, the novels may affirm, modify, question to the point of moral interrogation, present alternatives to, and/or critique state stances. In doing so they provide ideas for debate in a society where politics is deemed to be for politicians and where there is censorship and self-censoring.
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Lee, Chai-yen. "An error analysis of Singapore's secondary school student's Chinese language compositions." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37274338.
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Hiley, Mark Andrew. "Singapore's experience in ASEAN : the nature of trade and inward investment." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5531/.
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An attempt is made to examine the importance of the Pacific region to the economy of Singapore, using several standard methodologies in the international economics literature. Singapore's trade with and investment flows from the 'region' have been increasing significantly, while its interaction with Europe has diminished. Hence, in light of these developments, it is useful to explore the links between Singapore and the Pacific region, especially with respect to ASEAN. The trade aspect of the theses has been based on models developed by Balassa, who used them in an attempt to analyse the growth and development of the European Community. Firstly, in analysing the changing comparative advantage in the region, a measure of revealed comparative advantage is adopted, Balassa's export specialisation ratio (1965). Secondly, the changing pattern of trade in manufactured goods is examined in relation to changing country characteristics by the use of an econometric technique - ordinary least squares - (Balassa 1979). Then, using a measure of intra- industry trade (Grubel and Lloyd 1975), the figures are examined for ASEAN along with a study of intra-industry trade by commodity group for Singapore. Balassa's method of estimating trade creation and trade diversion (1963), is used in order to test the effectiveness of economic cooperation in ASEAN. Singapore adopted an open strategy towards Foreign Direct Investment (FDl). The effects on Singapore can be conveniently reviewed under the standard industrial economics format of structure, conduct and performance. Using Dunning's adaption of the 'industrial organisation approach' (1973), it is possible to show, by examining the statistical relationship between a number of structural variables and the sectoral distribution within the manufacturing industry (correlation technique - bivariate normal distribution), that the ownership advantages of multinational corporations have assisted Singapore's economic restructuring towards Higher allocative and technical efficiency; and that multinational corporations have adjusted to the changing locational advantages of Singapore's resource endowments rather more positively than national firms.