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Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives

   

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Running head: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONSOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONName of University:Name of Student:Author Note:

2SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONMinistry of Education of Singapore has decided to incorporate certain changes in theireducation system, especially involving the pre- schools and primary schools in order to bridgethe gap caused in education between the different classes of population. There has been anannouncement about the opening of sixteen new MOE run kindergarten within the time span of2018 to 2020. It has been reported that seven such pre-schools will be inaugurated in 2019 andsix others in 2020. Newer estates like Sengkang and Punggol will be the locations for theseschools because of high demand for educational services (GOY, 2018). However, the extendedplan of MOE is that they hope to introduce 50 such preschools that would be located in theprimary schools, which would provide about 14000 places, enough for catering one fifth of thepermanent Singapore residents of the age range of five and six. They plan to ramp up the full daypre-school places by another 40,000 places, a part of which would come from the new MOE runkindergarten centers where children up to the age of four would be taken in, in the next fiveyears(Ying, 2018). Further information from MOE is that these initiatives are not fornationalizing the early childhood sector and that the 50 pre-schools that the government plans onopening are a minority in comparison to the other 450 running institutions. Also there has beennews that MOE plans on giving the students of MOE kindergartens a priority when entering theprimary school in order to make the process smoothen the transition process(YANG, 2018). There has been numerous researches about the factors effecting education andeducational systems, the factors to be discussed in this report are class, ethnicity and gender.There have been ambiguous findings from various researches. Some studies have shown thatthere is no role of gender in the academic performance. Some studies have suggested that menperformed better in women in certain situations and settings and vice versa. Some findings havesuggested that women students out perform their male counterparts at most levels, especially in

3SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONreading and writing. However, analyzing the current educational system in Singapore, Gendermight not be a factor that would affect the education system despite studies showing that femalesoutperform males in Singapore (Jayanthi et al., 2014). Singapore is an amalgamation of variousethnicities as people from various backgrounds come here to receive education. Studies haveshown that academic performance differs across nationality (Yousef, 2011). Most internationalstudents in Singapore are from other Asian countries like Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Indonesiaand Myanmar and these students are offered various scholarships so that they can finance theireducation in Singapore. It is usually difficult for individuals to fit in a different culturalbackground as the social support is relatively weak. However, this can be overcome if studentsfocus on academic achievements. Given the present educational scenario, ethnicity is a majorfactor in the Singaporean educational system. Class is another factor that needs to be discussed,Social reproduction is a phenomenon in which the wealth of family is carried on the furthergenerations, which means wealthy people remain wealthy and poor families remain poor.Education is an essential mode of improving the social class of the family; however, familiesfrom the lower class are unable to pay for the price for education. This is the main reason forMOE to open more government funded kindergarten centers. The rationale is to make childhoodeducation available for the underprivileged class too.Symbolic interactionism is an important framework of the basic sociologicalperspectives. According to this perspective, social interaction is dependent on the symbolicmeanings of social behavior which individuals develop. The theory states that people have thetendency to impose certain meanings to the surrounding objects or behaviors or events and thesociety as a whole is analyzed on the basis of such subjective meanings. In case of the presentsituation in discussion, MOE has plans of giving priority admissions to the students of the MOE

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