Open your essay with how you are going to locate the social and historical background to your selected policy area: Challenges Faced by Preschool Teachers Assignment, AIC, Singapore

Open your essay with how you are going to locate the social and historical background to your selected policy area; this is primarily a discussion of your national context and positionality? Explain the stress and challenges faced by Singapore Preschool teachers.

Then write one paragraph and talk about my positionality in this early childhood industry as a preschool teacher for 10 years and preschool leader for 10 years. Explain how it affects me over the years as the first person and explain why I look at Singapore’s existing policy.  Draw connections to the issues, for example, how the issues link to the policy. Then how it acts upon our practices.

In what sense is your policy area a global education issue (this should entail a brief discussion of neoliberalism and globalization. e.g. transnational pupil achievement, the commodification of education that is harnessed to the national economy.

Look critically at the influence of global ideas and national solutions, for example, what is Singapore’s approach to teachers’ working stress? What is the Singapore government’s plan of action to improve teachers’ working stress?

Think about the hybridity idea, how much does your policy enact a local/national version of a global movement e.g.Help Preschool Teachers to cope with stress levels at work.

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