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