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  1. Towards situational understanding: an examination of SkillsFuture in Singapore

    Article • International Journal of Training Research, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  2. Confucianism and education

    Article • November 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Charlene Tan

  3. An analysis of the concept of soft skills in a lifelong learning movement in Singapore

    Article • International Journal of Lifelong Education, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  4. Nature connectedness and moral cultivation in the Yijing

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, August 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Charlene Tan

  5. Promoting student well-being through school leadership development in Hong Kong: insights from Sunzi’s art of warfare

    Article • Pastoral Care in Education, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  6. Response to Jesudason on ethical problems with kindness in healthcare

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2025, BMJ

    Charlene Tan

  7. Re-envisioning Autonomy from a Confucian Viewpoint

    Article • UniCath journal of biomedicine and bioethics, January 2025, Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište

    Charlene Tan

  8. United with nature: a Confucian pedagogy for ecological education

    Article • Pedagogy Culture and Society, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  9. Adapting to Change in Education

    Article • November 2024, IGI Global

    Charlene Tan

  10. An analysis of attainment grouping policy in Singapore

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, October 2024, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  11. Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Re-Conceptualisation of Resonant Leadership

    Article • Philosophy of Management, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  12. A Confucian approach to a democratic classroom

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  13. The social contract and education: Confucian viewpoints

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  14. Christianity and Moral Education in Asia

    Article • June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  15. Section Overview

    Article • June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  16. An ethical foundation of global competence and its educational implications

    Article • Globalisation Societies and Education, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  17. Signature pedagogies for pedagogical leadership

    Article • April 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Charlene Tan

  18. Service Learning and Social Innovation Initiatives for Higher Education in Singapore and Hong Kong

    Article • March 2024, IGI Global

    Charlene Tan

  19. An ancient Chinese interpretation of distributed leadership

    Article • Asian Philosophy, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  20. Distributed leadership and Sunzi’s Art of Warfare

    Article • International Journal of Leadership in Education, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  21. Rethinking service learning in the light of Wang Yangming’s philosophy

    Article • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  22. A Foucauldian analysis of research Assessment in a postcolonial context: the example of Hong Kong

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  23. Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  24. Educational equity in China: The experience of school choice reform in Shanghai

    Article • Asia Pacific Journal of Education, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  25. Integrating Moral Personhood and Moral Management: A Confucian Approach to Ethical Leadership

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  26. Confucian trustworthiness and communitarian education

    Article • Ethics and Education, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  27. A Daoist understanding of mindful leadership

    Article • Leadership, February 2023, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  28. Daoism, Novelty, and Usefulness: A Philosophical Exploration of Creativity

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, November 2022, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  29. A Daoist Interpretation of Global Citizenship and Implications for Global Citizenship Education for Youth

    Article • November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  30. A Daoist interpretation of perspective-taking

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  31. Rethinking the notion of the high-performing education system: A Daoist response

    Article • Research in Comparative and International Education, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  32. Confucian Self-cultivation and the Paradox of Moral Education

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  33. Private tutoring and the subjective rationalities of parents: the experiences in South Korea and Singapore

    Article • Asian Education and Development Studies, October 2020, Emerald

    Charlene Tan

  34. Being modern in China. A western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today

    Article • British Journal of Sociology of Education, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  35. Revisiting Donald Schön’s notion of reflective practice: a Daoist interpretation

    Article • Reflective Practice, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  36. Social justice education with Chinese characteristics: An example from Shanghai

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, June 2020, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  37. Conceptions and Practices of Critical Thinking in Chinese Schools: An Example from Shanghai

    Article • Educational Studies, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  38. The learning school through a Daoist lens

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  39. Educating Multicultural Citizens From a Confucian Heritage

    Article • January 2020, IGI Global

    Charlene Tan

  40. Digital Confucius? Exploring the implications of artificial intelligence in spiritual education

    Article • Connection Science, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  41. Transformational Islamic Leadership

    Article • January 2020, IGI Global

    Charlene Tan

  42. An ethical foundation for global citizenship education: a neo-Confucian perspective

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  43. Conceptualising social justice in education: a Daoist perspective

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  44. A Signature Pedagogy for Initial Teacher Education in Singapore

    Article • The New Educator, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  45. Challenging Gendered Social Norms: Educational Insights from Confucian Classics

    Article • Asian Philosophy, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  46. Path-dependency or path-shaping? An analysis of the policy to target exam-orientation in South Korea

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  47. Advancing Student-Centric Education in Korea: Issues and Challenges

    Article • The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  48. Beyond high-stakes exam: A neo-Confucian educational programme and its contemporary implications

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  49. Rethinking the Concept of Mindfulness: A Neo‐Confucian Approach

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, April 2019, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  50. A Confucian Interpretation of Creativity

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, February 2019, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  51. Sensemaking and sensegiving in schooling reform: South Korea and China

    Article • Globalisation Societies and Education, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  52. Parental responses to education reform in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong

    Article • Asia Pacific Education Review, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  53. Mencius’ extension of moral feelings: implications for cosmopolitan education

    Article • Ethics and Education, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  54. Whither Teacher-Directed Learning? Freirean and Confucian Insights

    Article • The Educational Forum, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  55. Competence or Performance? A Bernsteinian Analysis of Basic Competency Assessment in Hong Kong

    Article • British Journal of Educational Studies, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  56. Signature Pedagogies for Educators Using Films: An Example From Singapore

    Article • The Teacher Educator, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  57. To be more fully human: Freire and Confucius

    Article • Oxford Review of Education, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  58. A Confucian perspective of self-cultivation in learning: Its implications for self-directed learning

    Article • Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  59. Neoliberalism as exception: the New High-Quality School project in Shanghai

    Article • Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  60. Teaching critical thinking: Cultural challenges and strategies in Singapore

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, June 2017, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  61. The enactment of the policy initiative for critical thinking in Singapore schools

    Article • Journal of Education Policy, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  62. Chinese responses to Shanghai’s performance in PISA

    Article • Comparative Education, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  63. Private Supplementary Tutoring and Parentocracy in Singapore

    Article • Interchange, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  64. PISA and education reform in Shanghai

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  65. Humanism, Islamic Education, and Confucian Education

    Article • Religious Education, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  66. A Confucian Conception of Critical Thinking

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, December 2016, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  67. Lifelong learning through the SkillsFuture movement in Singapore: challenges and prospects

    Article • International Journal of Lifelong Education, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  68. A shared vision of human excellence: Confucian spirituality and arts education

    Article • Pastoral Care in Education, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  69. Promoting reflection in pre-service teachers through problem-based learning: an example from Canada

    Article • Reflective Practice, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  70. Tensions and challenges in China’s education policy borrowing

    Article • Educational Research, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  71. Teacher agency and school-based curriculum in China’s non-elite schools

    Article • Journal of Educational Change, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  72. Professional learning communities in Singapore and Shanghai: implications for teacher collaboration

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  73. Educational Policy Borrowing in China

    Article • February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  74. Constructivism and pedagogical reform in China: issues and challenges

    Article • Globalisation Societies and Education, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  75. Beyond ‘either-or’ thinking: John Dewey and Confucius on subject matter and the learner

    Article • Pedagogy Culture and Society, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  76. Teacher-directed and learner-engaged: exploring a Confucian conception of education

    Article • Ethics and Education, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  77. Building teachers’ capacity in formative assessment: the singapore example

    Article • The New Educational Review, June 2015, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek

    Charlene Tan

  78. Rethinking the Framework for 21st-Century Education: Toward a Communitarian Conception

    Article • The Educational Forum, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  79. Developing Teachers Through Professional Learning Communities in Singapore and Shanghai

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  80. Education policy borrowing and cultural scripts for teaching in China

    Article • Comparative Education, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  81. Fostering Social Cohesion and Cultural Sustainability: Character and Citizenship Education in Singapore

    Article • Diaspora Indigenous and Minority Education, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  82. Rationality and autonomy from the Enlightenment and Islamic perspectives

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  83. Muslim Education in the 21st Century

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  84. Beyond Rote-Memorisation: Confucius’ Concept of Thinking

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  85. Education policy borrowing in China: has the West wind overpowered the East wind?

    Article • Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  86. Global Perspectives on Spirituality and Education

    Article • December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yaacov J Katz, Charlene Tan

  87. Reflective thinking for intelligence analysis using a case study

    Article • Reflective Practice, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  88. For group, (f)or self: communitarianism, Confucianism and values education in Singapore

    Article • The Curriculum Journal, December 2013, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  89. “OUR SHARED VALUES” IN SINGAPORE: A CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVE

    Article • Educational Theory, July 2012, Wiley

    Charlene Tan

  90. The culture of education policy making: curriculum reform in Shanghai

    Article • Critical Studies in Education, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  91. Promoting spiritual ideals through design thinking in public schools

    Article • International Journal of Children s Spirituality, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  92. Islamic Education and Indoctrination

    Article • January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  93. Creating thinking schools through authentic assessment: the case in Singapore

    Article • Educational Assessment Evaluation and Accountability, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  94. Functional differentiation: a critique of the bilingual policy in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Asian Public Policy, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  95. Where tradition and ‘modern’ knowledge meet: exploring two Islamic schools in Singapore and Britain

    Article • Intercultural Education, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  96. Educational policy trajectories in an era of globalization: Singapore and Cambodia

    Article • Prospects, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  97. Exploring the Spiritual Needs of Adolescent Girls

    Article • Religion & Education, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  98. Contesting reform: Bernstein’s pedagogic device and madrasah education in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Curriculum Studies, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  99. The Singapore Global Schoolhouse

    Article • The International Journal of Educational Management, March 2010, Emerald

    Charlene Tan

  100. Maximising the overlapping area: multiculturalism and a Muslim identity for madrasahs in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Beliefs and Values, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  101. Two views of education: Promoting civic and moral values in Cambodia schools

    Article • International Journal of Educational Development, September 2008, Elsevier

    Charlene Tan

  102. Improving schools through reflection for teachers: lessons from Singapore

    Article • School Effectiveness and School Improvement, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  103. Creating ‘good citizens’ and maintaining religious harmony in Singapore

    Article • British Journal of Religious Education, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Charlene Tan

  104. The Teaching of Religious Knowledge in a Plural Society: The Case for Singapore

    Article • International Review of Education, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  105. Education reforms in Cambodia: issues and concerns

    Article • Educational Research for Policy and Practice, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  106. Islam and citizenship education in Singapore

    Article • Education Citizenship and Social Justice, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Charlene Tan

  107. Dynamics of change: decentralised centralism of education in Singapore

    Article • Journal of Educational Change, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  108. Change and Continuity: Chinese Language Policy in Singapore

    Article • Language Policy, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Charlene Tan

  109. Michael Hand, Indoctrination and the Inculcation of Belief

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, May 2004, Wiley

    Charlene Tan