Springer Singapore: 3660 books
Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System
The Case of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This book focuses on current subcontracting practices in the construction industry and their effects on Singapore’s construction productivity. It offers readers a better understanding of how the fragmentation of large and small firms in Singapore impacts construction productivity when operating...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy
The Challenges of Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside...
Future Learning in Primary Schools
A Singapore Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This edited book tells the story of the multifaceted efforts devoted by a “future school” in Singapore—The Nan Chiau Primary School—in shaping future learning. It documents the various measures implemented by one primary school to improve student learning outcomes in a technology-rich teaching...
Applied Psychology Readings
Selected Papers from Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2017 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP), an event held annually in Singapore. Discussing the latest innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of...
Business and Politics in Asia's Key Financial Centres
Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book provides unique insights into the politics of finance and the socio-political relations which drive financial policymaking in Hong kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. While the existing literature in the field focuses mainly on economic explanations for financial centre development, this book...
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods in Singapore
The Convergence of Policies, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues. It is divided into three themes – infrastructure, planning,...
Bangladeshi Migration to Singapore
A Process-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South–South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South–South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact this temporary form of migration...
Contextualized Practices in Arts Education
An International Dialogue on Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
This edited book not only makes a much-needed contribution to research in arts education but also provides a strong grounding of evidential support for Singapore arts education, in contrast to the current state of affairs in arts education in many parts of the world where severe cuts in funding, lackluster...
Applied Psychology Readings
Selected Papers from Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book features the best papers presented at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology in 2016. Chapters include research conducted by experts in the field of applied psychology from the Asia-Pacific region, and cover areas such as community and environmental psychology, psychotherapy and...
by Tai Wei Lim
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of...
Brain Drain
Propensity for Malaysian Professionals to Leave for Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore. In this regard, it examines a number of variables such as Better Perks and Benefits, Quality of Work Life, Ease of Immigration Procedures, International Exposure, Greater Job Availability, and Social Networks, and how they influence...
Work-Life Balance in Construction
Millennials in Singapore and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The book presents the latest studies on the work–life balance of millennial (also known as Generation Y) building professionals in Singapore and South Korea. Its main goal is to compare and contrast the workplace attitudes of millennials, and to provide guidelines that help supervisors in the construction...
The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back
Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and...
New Media and Learning in the 21st Century
A Socio-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is...