CURRICULUM VITAE
Professional ​
info​​
I am passionate about experimenting with object-based learning in museums and classrooms. Currently responsible for educational content development for pre-school and primary schools across all public museums in Singapore.
Skills
Teacher Education
Gallery Interpretation
Participatory Museum Practise
Work​
experience​
Assistant Director, Education,
National Heritage Board, Singapore
​Feb 2014 - present (on study leave)
​Directing the educational content of all public museums and heritage institutions to enhance pre-school and primary school education.
Assistant Director, Audience and Learning
Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
​Jan 2005 - Feb 2014
Orchestrated the educational programmes and gallery interpretation of Asian Civilisations Museum that also operated the Peranakan Museum.
Manager, Youth Expedition project
Singapore International Foundation
​2001 - 2004
Pioneered the service-learning movement in Singapore that empowered teachers and youth to explore their social identities and civic responsibilities through personal and community development.
Languages
Englsih
Mandarin
Bahasa indonesia
Basic Pali
Education
Full time student
UCL MA in Museum Studies, London
Sep 2016-Sep 2017
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Kelaniya University, Sri Lanka
External Program - Singapore
​2013/4
M.A.,Buddhist Studies
Postgraduate Diploma, Buddhist Studies
National University of Singapore
​1997/8
B.A., Department of Southeast Asian Studies with Honors
Select Publications
"Singapore's Little Treasures: Innovation in museum and classroom practice for and by kindergarten teachers", ICOM-CECA Best Practice Publication Volume 5, 2016
"The Power of Museums for Art Education", Conference Proceedings, 41st Annual Meeting of Korea Art Education Association, Seoul, 2016
"Museums, Languages, and Identities: Making Multicultural Education Accessible to Preschool Teachers", Conference Proceedings, ICOM-CECA, 2015
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"Cross-cultural Conversations: Dialogues between object, people and ideas", 3rd Children’s Museum Conference, Conference Proceedings, National Folk Museum Korea, South Korea, 2014
"Edutaining Generation Y in Museums", ICOM Education 23, Museum Education and New Media, 2012.
"The Makings of a Participatory Museum. International Seminar on Museums and Changing Cultural Landscapes", Conference Proceedings, National Museum Institute of History, Art and Museology and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh, India, 2012
"Exhibitions that excite! What young people want to do in museums", Online Conference Proceedings of Commonwealth Association of Museum (CAM) Triennial Symposium 2011.
"Seeing Religion with New Eyes", The Journal of Material Religion, 6 [2], 2010.