Selected Publications

Journal Articles (Refereed)

• Koh, A. (2008). On Singaporean authoritarianism: Critical Discourse Analysis and contextual dissonance. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 16(3):303-314.
• Koh, A. (2007). Living with Globalization Tactically: The Metapragmatics of Globalization in Singapore. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 22(2), 179-201.
• Koh, A. (2007) Deparochializing Education: Globalization, regionalization, and the formation of an ASEAN eduation space. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 28(2), 179-195.
• Koh, A. (2006) Working against globalisation. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 4(3), 357-370.
• Koh, A. (2005) ‘Heteroglossic’ discourses on globalization: a view from the ‘East’. Globalizations, 2(1), 228-239.
• Koh, A. (2005). Imagining the Singapore “Nation” and “Identity”: The role of the media and national education. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 25(1), 77-93.
• Koh, A. (2004). Newspaper literacy: An investigation of how Singaporean students read the Straits Times. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 3(3), 43-60.
• Koh, A. (2004). Singapore Education in ‘New Times’: Global/Local Imperatives, Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of Education, 25(3), 335-349.
• Koh, A. (2003). Global Flows of Foreign Talent: Identity Anxieties in Singapore’s Ethnoscape. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asial 18(2), 230-57.
• Koh, A. (2003) Tactical Globalisation: Managing globalisation the Singapore way, Commentary, Special issue: Globalisation – Responses and Dilemmas, Vol. 18. 91-95.
• Koh, A. (2002). Towards a Critical Pedagogy: Creating "Thinking Schools" in Singapore, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 34(3), 255-264.
• Koh, A. (2001). Critical Cyber Pedagogy: Doing multiliteracies in the Singapore classrooms, Education Journal, 29(1), 33-46.

Book Chapters

• Koh, A. (2008). Deparochializing Education: Re-envisioning education in ASEAN. In B. Lingard, J. Nixon and S. Randson (Eds.), Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: The Remaking of Education for a Cosmopolitan Society (pp.37-49). London: Continuum.
• Koh, A. (2008). Disciplining "Generation M": The paradox of creating a "local" national identity in an era of "global" flows. In N. Dolby and F. Rizvi (Eds.), Youth Moves: Identities and Education in Global Perspective (pp.193-206). London: Routledge.
• Koh, A. (2004). The Singapore Education System: Postcolonial Encounter of the Singaporean Kind. In J. Matthews, A.-H. Hudson & A. Woods (Eds.), Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education. PostPress: Flaxton, pp. 155-172.
• Koh, A. (2003) Politicising ‘the popular’: Popular Fashion as Fashion-able Protest. In C. Barron, P. Benson, & N. Bruce (Eds). Knowledge & Discourse: Speculating on Disciplinary Futures” Web Processings, 2nd International Conference, Hong Kong. http://ec.hku.hk/kd2proc/default.asp
• Koh, A. (2001). National Education in Singapore: A Situated Responses to Globalisation. In A. Woods, A. Kolatsis, & R. Capeness (Eds). Creating New Dialogues: Policy, Pedagogy & Reform. PostPress: Flaxton, pp. 137-143.
• Koh, A. (2000). Singapore Education in ‘New Times’. In C. Kapitzke, W. L. Cheung, Y. F., Yu (Eds.) Difference & Dispersion: Educational Research in a Postmodern Context. PostPress: Flaxton, pp. 123-132.
• Koh, A. (2000). Critical Literacy as Thinking Tools for creating “Thinking Schools” in Singapore. In C. Kapitzke, W. L. Cheung, Y .F., Yu (Eds.) Difference & Dispersion: Educational Research in a Postmodern Context. PostPress: Flaxton, pp. 93-102.

Book Reviews

• Reading Culture: Textual Practices in Singapore by Phyllis, G. L. Chew & Annelise Kramer-Dahl (Eds.) (1999) in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 20(3).
• Watch IT: The Risks and Promises of Information Technologies for Education, Burbules, C. & Callister, T. (2000) in Teaching Education, 11(3), 363 – 365.

Editorial Board

• Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy , International Reading Association, U.S.

Paper Presentation at Conferences

• 2nd Global Conference on Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues, 30 Jun to 3rd Jul 2008, Mansfield College, Oxford. (Conference Paper: Researching the visual in education policy research: A videological analysis of Learning Journeys)
• Discourses and Cultural Practices Conference, 29, 30 November and 1 December 2007 held at the University of Technology, Sydney. (Conference Paper: "On Singaporean Authoritarianism: Critical Discourse Analysis and Contextual Dissonance").
• Asia Pacific Region: Societies in Transformation, The 8 th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association, 19-21 Nov 2007 held at the Evergreen Laurel Hotel, Penang Malaysia (Conference Paper: Living with Globalization Tactically: The Metapragmatics of Globalization in Singapore).
• Invited Plenary Paper Presentation, “40 years on: Globalization, Regionalization, and the Formation of an ASEAN Education Space” at a one-day conference on “The Role of Education in Building An ASEAN Socio-cultural Community”, 29 Jan 2007 at the RELC International Hotel organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
• Invited Plenary Paper Presentation, “Nationhood and Identity for Singapore: The Role of the Media and National Education” at the International Symposium on National Education on 7-8 June 2005 in Hong Kong organized by Home Affairs Bureau, Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education, Commission on Youth and RTHK held at Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.
• Invited Discussant for the Globalising the Research Imagination Invitational min-conference, Prato, Italy, organised by Monash University, Global Institute of Movement Studies, 24-26 Oct 2005.
• Invited Guest Lecturer at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Melbourne, 3 Jun 2005. Critical Literacy: Theory & Practice.
• Invited workshop leader at the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Conference, 21-23 Jul 2005. Workshop: How to do things with visuals.
• International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity 2003, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 26-29 November 2003 (Conference Paper: Newspaper Literacy, Reading the Word, Reading the World: An investigation of how Singaporean students read the Straits Times.)
• International Federation of Teaching of English conference, The University of Melbourne, 5-8 Jul 2003 (Conference Paper: Doing Critical Discourse Analysis in an Authoritarian Context).
• Cultural Studies Association of Australia. Ute: Culture: the utility of culture and the uses of Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne, 5-7 December 2002 (Conference Paper: ‘Design’ in Visual Culture: Re-presenting Social (Disorder).
• Knowledge & Discourse 2: Speculating on Disciplinary Futures. An International Conference, Hong Kong, 25-29 June 2002 (Conference Paper: Reading Popular Culture: Consumption as Production)
• Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries: Asian Diasporas and Identities in Australia and Beyond, 30 November to 2 December 2001,The University of Queensland, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. (Conference Paper: Global Flow of Foreign Talent: Emerging Diaspora Communities in Singapore’s Ethnoscape)
• Education Research: Rethinking Structures and Practices, 19-20 October 2001, The University of Queensland, School of Education Postgraduate Conference (Conference Paper: Education and Empire: The Singapore-Cambridge Connection, and Globalisation Symposium: Singapore’s tactical response to globalisation)
• Disrupting Preconceptions: Post Colonialism and Education, 17-19 August 2001, The University of Queensland, School of Education (Conference Paper: The Singapore Education System: Postcolonial Encounter of a Singaporean Kind).
• Values Education and Citizenship Education In The New Century, 9-11 June 2000, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong (Conference Paper: National Education In Singapore: A Situated Response To Globalisation)
• Education Research Association, Singapore - New 'Literacies': Educational Response to a Knowledge-Based Economy', 4-6 Sep 2000, Nanyang Technological University (Conference Paper: Critical Cyber Pedagogy)
• English in South-East Asia in Singapore, 22-24 Nov, 99. Nanyang Technological University. (Conference Paper: The Space for Critical Literacy in Singapore Classrooms)
• MERA-ERA ‘Education Challenges in the New Millennium in Malacca’, 1-3 Dec 1999. (Conference Paper: Singapore Education in ‘New Times’)

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