Teachers Conference (28 May 2019)

Making the Joy of Learning Visible, Teacher Conference 2019

The presenters set out to find out how secondary school students in Singapore perceive the ‘Joy of Learning’, and to explore ways in which to promote it through lesson design. In particular, they aimed to find out more about the ways students experience the joy of learning in the classroom, both in and outside of school. Data was collected by tape-recording interviews with secondary two and three students in 2018. Based on the themes surfaced from the coding process, characteristics of the ways in which students experience the joy of learning were identified. The sharing of the findings will guide educators to design effective lessons that promote the joy of learning in students in secondary schools and beyond.

 
 
 

TLP1 Presentation (15 Mar 2019)

Secondary School Students’ Perceptions towards ‘Joy of Learning’
in Singapore
 

Elaine Tay¹, Quek Eng Chiew², Frances Ess³, Tan Hoe Teck⁴, Margaret Goh⁵

¹Anglo-Chinese Junior College, ²Bukit View Secondary School, ³Mayflower Secondary School, ⁴School Science and Technology Singapore, ⁵Zhang De Primary School

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out secondary school students’ perceptions towards ‘Joy of Learning’ in Singapore and the ways to promote it in lesson design. It aims to explore through the lens of students the way they experience the joy of learning in the classroom, in school, and outside school. The data was collected by tape-recording interviews with students aged 14 to 15 years in 2018. Based on the students’ opinions and experiences, a detailed description of their experiences of the joy of learning in secondary education was documented. This method of data collection is applied until it reaches a level of saturation, where no new themes can be surfaced from the latest interview. Based on the themes in the coding process, the characteristics of the joy of learning were identified. Based on our research, we found that there five themes which we arrange in the following acronym of H.E.C.K.S. HECKS stand for Humour, Experiences, Competency, Knowledge, and Social. By reading in-depth to the five major themes, it will guide educators to design effective lessons that promote the joy of learning in secondary schools and beyond.

Keywords: the joy of learning; perception; experiences; secondary education

 

ERAS (Nov 2018)

ERAS-APERA International Conference 2018     

Secondary School Students' Perceptions towards 'Joy of Learning' in Singapore 

Presented by: Mrs. Frances Ess (Mayflower Secondary School), Eng Chiew Quek (Bukit View Sec School), Ms. Elaine Tay (Anglo-Chinese Junior College), Kim Lian Margaret Goh (Zhangde Primary School)

The purpose of this paper is to find out​secondary school students’ perceptions towards ‘Joy of Learning’ in Singapore ​and the ways to promote it in lesson design. It aims to explore through the lens of students the way they experience the joy of learning in the classroom, in school, and outside school. The data was collected by tape-recording interviews with students aged 14 to 15 years in 2018. Based on the students’ opinions and experiences, a detailed description of their experiences of the joy of learning in secondary education was documented. This method of data collection is applied until it reaches a level of saturation, where no new themes can be surfaced from the latest interview. Based on the themes in the coding process, the characteristics of the joy of learning will be identified. This will guide educators to design effective lessons that promote the joy of learning in secondary schools and beyond.

 

 

TLP1 (June to Sep 2018)

Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of 

‘Joy of Learning’ in Singapore

Miss Goh Kim Lian, Margaret¹, Mr Tan Hoe Teck², Mdm Tay Phuay Leng Elaine³, Mdm Frances Ong Hock Lin⁴, Mdm Quek Eng Chiew⁵

¹Zhangde Primary School

²School of Science and Technology, Singapore

³Anglo-Chinese Junior College

⁴Mayflower Secondary School

⁵Bukit View Secondary School

The purpose of this paper is to find out secondary school students’ perceptions towards  ‘Joy of Learning’ in Singapore and the ways to promote it in lesson design. It aims to explore through the lens of students the way they experience the joy of learning in the classroom, in school and outside school. The data was collected by tape-recording interviews with students aged 14 to 15 years in 2018. Based on the students’ opinions and experiences, a detailed description of their experiences of the joy of learning in secondary education was documented. This method of data collection is applied until it reaches a level of saturation, where no new themes can be surfaced from the latest interview. Based on the themes in the coding process, characteristics of the joy of learning will be identified. This will guide educators to design effective lessons that promote the joy of learning in secondary schools and beyond.

Keywords: the joy of learning; perception; experiences; secondary education