Rajendran Nagappan

Homepage: http://nsrajendran.tripod.com

Mailing address:
Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
35900 Tanjong Malim
Perak, Malaysia

Email: nsrajendran@upsi.edu.my OR nsrajendran@hotmail.com

MSU degree: Ph.D in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy from the Department of Teacher Education, 1998

Dissertation topic: Teaching Higher-Order Thinking Skills In Language Classrooms: The Need For Transformation of Teaching Practice

Area of special competence:
i. Teacher Education
ii. Teaching Higher-Order Thinking Skills
iii. Qualitative Research Methods

Current position: Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
35900 Tanjong Malim, Malaysia

Language: English, Malay, and Tamil

Publications:
Rajendran, Nagappan. (2001). Language teaching and the enhancement of higher-order thinking skills. In Renandaya, W.A. & Sunga. N. R. (Eds.). Language curriculum and instruction in multicultural societies - Anthology series 42. Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.

Rajendran, Nagappan. (2001). The teaching of higher-order thinking skills in Malaysia. Journal of Southeast Asian Education, 2001, Vol.2. No.1, pp.42-65.

Rajendran, Nagappan, (In press). Teachers’ preparedness to teach higher-order thinking skills in classrooms. Jurnal Kurikulum. Kuala Lumpur: Curriculum Development Center, Ministry of Education.

Rajendran, Nagappan. (2002). Bahasa Melayu: Penyumbang Ke Arah Penguasaan Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi (Malay Language: Contributor towards acquisition of higher-order thinking skills) . Proceedings (Vol.1) of Second International Conference on Malay Studies, 8 – 15 October, 2002, Beijing, China.

Rajendran, Nagappan. (2002). Pembinaan Ilmu Kandungan Pedagogi Di Kalangan Guru Matematik: Antara Retorik dan Realiti (Construction of Pedagogical Content Knowledge by Mathematics Teachers: Between Rhetoric and Reality). Proceedings of the National Seminar of Mathematics Education 2002, 29 – 31 October, 2002, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.

Rajendran, Nagappan. (2002). Restructuring Teacher Education Programs To Teach Higher-Order Thinking Skills. Procedings of The Inaugural UPSI International Teacher Education Conference, May 6-8, 2002. Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.

Rajendran, Nagappan. (2001). The teaching of higher-order thinking skills in Tamil language. Conference Proceedings of the Fifth World Tamil Teachers’ Conference, Singapore