Associate Professor Sirene Lim

Selected Publications

Journal Articles (Refereed):

Nuttall, J., Grieshaber, S., Lim, S., Yun, E., Oh, J., An, H., Sum, C.W., Yang, W. & Kim, S. (2022). Workforce diversity and quality improvement policies in early childhood education in East Asia. Early Years, 1-17.

Yang, W., & Lim, S. (2023). Toward distributed pedagogical leadership for quality improvement: Evidence from a childcare centre in Singapore. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 51(2), 289-307.

Lim, S. M. (2015). Early childhood care and education in a consumer society: Questioning child-adult binary and childhood inequality. Global Studies in Childhood, 5(3), 305-321.

Lim, S. M., Wong, M.E., & Tan, D. (2014). Allied Educators (Learning and Behavioural) in Singapore’s mainstream schools: first steps towards inclusivity? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 18(2), 123-139.

Lim, C., & Lim, S. M. (2013). Learning and language: Educarer-child interactions in Singapore infant care settings. Early Child Development and Care, 183(10), 1468-1485.

Tay-Lim, J. & Lim, S. M. (2013). Privileging preschool children’s voices in research: Use of drawings and a co-construction process. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 12(1), 65-83.

Lim, S. M. & Lum, C.H. (2012). Creating polyphony with exploratory web documentation in Singapore. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 37(4), 123-126.

Book Chapters (Refereed):

Nuttall, J., Grieshaber, S., Lim, S., Yun, E. (2023). Conceptualising professional development with and for a diverse and globally mobile early childhood education workforce. In Tierney, R.J., Rizvi, F. & Ercikan, K. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (4th Ed.), pp. 596-603. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.04064-1

Lim, S. M. & Sum, C. W. (2022). The next phase of developments in Singapore’s ECE: quality in the best interests of all children? In Lee Y. J. (Ed.), Education in Singapore: People Making and Nation Building. Springer.

Lipponen, L., Ang, L., & Lim, S. M. with Hilppo, J., Lin, H., & Rajala, A. (2019). Vital voices for vital years (2): Perspectives on early childhood development in Singapore. Singapore: Lien Foundation.

Lim, S. M. & Lipponen, L. (2018). Pedagogical leadership and conflict of motives in commercial ECEC environment. In S. Cheeseman & R. Walker (Eds.), Thinking about pedagogy in early education: Pedagogies for leading practice. Routledge.

Sum, C. W., Lim, S. M., & Tan, C. T. (2018). Pragmatism in policy making: influencing a largely privatized early childhood education and care sector in Singapore. In C. Pascal, T. Bertram, & M. Veisson (Eds.), Early childhood education and change in diverse cultural contexts. Routledge.

Lim, S. M. (2017). Marketization and corporatization of ECCE in Singapore. In M. Li, J. Fox, & S. Grieshaber, Contemporary issues and challenge in early childhood education in the Asia-Pacific region, pp. 17-32. Singapore: Springer.

Lim, S. M. (2017). Early childhood education and development in Singapore. In M. Fleer & B. van Oers (Eds.), International handbook of early childhood education and development, pp. 649-662. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

Lim, S. M. & Lim, S. E. A. (2017). Governmentality of early childhood care and education in a global city. In Rao, N., Zhou, J., & Sun, J. (Eds.), Early childhood education in Chinese societies, pp. 185-216. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

Edited Special Issues:

Lim, S. M. & Lloyd, E. (2019). Leadership as praxis in public and private settings within marketised early childhood systems. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 20(1).

Lim, S. M., Chen, D., & Yang, C. H. (Eds.) (2016). Special Issue: Born to play and learn, Early Educators (AECES), 27.