Reading Culture SG

February 14, 2019

​Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee commentary on the new HarbourFront library appears on Channel NewsAsia. In it, she stresses that while artificial intelligence may improve our libraries, the human touch brought forth by librarians remain key. 

October 02, 2018

Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee co-authors an ST Opinion with Professor Schubert Foo about the importance of teaching information literacy to Singapore students.

August 01, 2018

Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee and Research Scientist Sun Baoqi were interviewed by Singapore's Lian He Zao Bao  (联合早报) on adolescents’ leisure reading habits in Singapore.

March 22, 2018

In collaboration with NIE's Office of Education Research, Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee and the project team co-produced a video that underscores some of the research findings from the project by interviewing school leaders and teachers on the impact of the "Building a Reading Culture" project.

January 21, 2018

In this news analysis, Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee provides her opinion on why Singapore students are better readers. 

October 16, 2017

In this opinion piece, Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee Loh draws from the school library research and makes a case that schools and school libraries are positioned and play an important role in improving the reading skills of needy students. 

July 11, 2017

In this news article, Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee and her research team's work at Commonwealth Secondary School was covered by "The New Paper", a Singaporean media outlet. 

August 31, 2016

Assistant Professor Loh Chin Ee shares about her observations with underutilized school libraries, and suggests that the issue might lie with how the library space is organized and run. 

May 28, 2016

Dr Loh Chin Ee shares her personal journey and her memories of reading, and how reading is intertwined with the relationships the reader makes around books and spaces, and makes the point that technology supports and encourages the reading of the printed book. 

April 08, 2016

In this article for Biblioasia, a publication by the National Library, Dr. Loh recalls her own memories and other Singaporeans' memories of reading.

April 17, 2016

In this published Straits Times opinion piece, Dr Loh Chin Ee makes the case for using design thinking as a process to think about how ideas can be translated into blueprints that would improve the quality of life and its potential application to education in making meaningful changes to curricula, spaces, process and systems. 

May 28, 2015

In this opinion piece co-authored with Tan Tarn How, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Dr Loh Chin Ee call for reading habits to be cultivated across Singapore instead of tuition. 

The duo list a number of benefits associated with reading and call for a campaign to inculcate a reading nation. 

June 02, 2014

In this opinion piece, Dr Loh notes that school libraries in Singapore might be able to help level the playing field for students from low-income families as well-resourced school libraries can support student learning, and calls for each school to be equipped with a teacher-librarian.