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Ever since Social Studies was introduced as a compulsory and examinable subject for the upper secondary students in Singapore in 2001, anecdotal evidence had suggested that parents, students and even some teachers have often seen Social Studies as a source of propaganda for the Singapore government.
But is this the case? Are teachers required to promote the official government messages to the students that are designed to influence the students’ opinion with regard to various aspects of governance in Singapore?
Or has Social Studies been designed in such a way that promote critical thinking in students? Where the emphasis on the regurgitation of content knowledge place a less important and subsidiary role to that of training students to be reflective and critical thinkers who can make informed conclusions based on sound reasoning and most important of all supported with evidence?
Source of Propaganda
Goggle the phrase Social Studies and Propaganda and most likely the results would show that public’s perception on social media would often view Social Studies at best as a vehicle used by the government of the day to promote certain message and at worst accused of using it as a form of propaganda by the government.
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