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While the study showed that parental attitudes towards education in Singapore have moved in the past decade from academic competition towards holistic development, the study found that this shift is not necessarily linear, with a large portion of parents increasingly holding both orientations at once.<\/p>\n
\u201cParents continue to value what a school\u2019s education can provide to their child in terms of character, self-discipline, social-emotional development, and a happy learning environment, and place less importance than parents did in 2016 on several conventional markers of a \u2018good\u2019 primary school, including competitive environments, alumni networks and records of academic achievement,\u201d said the researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n The study showed that parents were more willing to say children should be allowed to fail and learn, and less willing to endorse disciplining children for poor examination performance.<\/p>\n \u201cYet these attitudinal changes coexist with continued concern about academic positioning, greater use of tuition and enrichment, and rising expenditure on both.<\/p>\n \u201cEducational ambition is not necessarily declining, though it is being expressed through a broader combination of academic, developmental and well-being goals,\u201d said the researchers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n The study also suggested that the central challenge for Singapore\u2019s education system is no longer simply to persuade parents of the value of holistic development, since parents already placed considerable value on character, social-emotional development, and child-school fit.<\/p>\n The harder task is to make it easier for parents to act on their holistic aspirations while managing continuing concerns about their children\u2019s academic progress and future opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cIf holistic development is to become more than an aspiration layered onto continuing competition, reforms will need to reduce the positional stakes attached to school placement, make information and support more accessible, and ensure that meaningful academic and developmental opportunities do not depend disproportionately on family resources,\u201d said the researchers.<\/p>\n They added that the key question for the next phase of education reform is how to reduce the tension between the holistic development parents say they value and the strategies many continue to pursue to safeguard their children\u2019s academic progress and future opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cAchieving that alignment would allow educational ambition to remain strong while being expressed in ways that are healthier, fairer and more consistent with Singapore\u2019s commitment to mobility and opportunity,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SHIFT IN PARENTAL ATTITUDES While the study showed that parental attitudes towards education in Singapore have moved in the past decade from academic competition towards…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--zs7Dg2Bb--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_96\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/07\/09\/jem_0542.jpg?itok=Yj0F6YT6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30609,2110,5496,5977,10339,23447,112,10675,22,4118],"class_list":["post-87824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-academic","tag-concerns","tag-development","tag-holistic","tag-increasingly","tag-ips","tag-parents","tag-persist","tag-singapore","tag-study","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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