WU Serk 吴适
Education in Singapore (Part 2: Chinese),
Accession Number 000567
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 15
Total Reels
- Yeo Geok Lee
Interviewer
- 07:13:27
Total Running Time
- Mandarin
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 15
Metadata
- 3 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:29:46
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Interviewee's educational background. His schooling experience during the Japanese Occupation in Southern China. Reasons for becoming a school teacher. Interviewee's family background. Underwent a teachers' training programme in China.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 15
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- 3 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:28:52
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Interviewee's training experience in Southern China from 1943 to 1947. His reasons for migrating to Singapore in 1947. His first impressions of Singapore. Hardships faced in Singapore by other new migrants with similar teaching background in China. His experience as a fruit-shop worker after his arrival.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 15
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- 3 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:29:19
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Interviewee found life as a fruit-shop employee unbearable. He secured a teaching job at Seh Chuan High School in 1948. School life in Seh Chuan High School. Students' background Description of school uniform. Life in the teachers' hostel. Lessons were conducted on the opera theatre stage.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 15
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- 3 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:29:19
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Description of inspectors' visits to Seh Chuan High School. Parent-teacher relationship during home visits. Comparison of students from Singapore and China. Salary and benefits of teachers. Seh Chuan High School's geographical isolation led to the formation of their own local basketball team. Description of how he was "recruited" into Pei Hwa School.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 15
Metadata
- 17 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:28:39
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Problems faced by teachers in the 1950s. Tasks performed by teachers. How Pei Hwa School was affected by the cleaners' strike in the 1950s. Pei Hwa School was unaffected by the decline in students' enrolment in Chinese Medium School. Students continued their secondary education in a Chinese medium school and Nanyang Girls' High School. A fund raising activity for Nanyang University (Nantah).
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Reel/Disc 6 of 15
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- 17 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:28:17
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Teaching conditions in 1952. Interviewee's view on the compulsory retirement age of 55 for teachers who joined the teaching profession before 1957. Pei Hwa School was unaffected by government's policy in 1953 to increase the use of English in Chinese schools. Pei Hwa School was chosen to be an aided school in 1957. Lukewarm response from Pei Hwa School students during the Chinese school unrest in the 1950s. How Pei Hwa School changed from mission to secular school.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 15
Metadata
- 31 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:27:27
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Graduates from Pei Hwa School went for further studies in Singapore and overseas. Effects of unpaid maternity leave on Chinese School teachers in the 1950s. Toilets' conditions in Pei Hwa School and Seh Chuan High School in the 1940s and 1950s. Home visits by teachers from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 15
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- 31 May 1993
Recording Date
- 00:27:36
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
Examples illustrating the changed perception and treatment of teachers. Comparison of family background of students in the 1950s and the 1980s. Reasons for students dropping out in the 1950s and the early 1960s. Factors behind the changing relationship between teachers and students.
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