 逍遥游:1945年至1965年 的中学生活与课余活动新闻稿 五六十年代是一个经常被提起的年代，但也是一个我们印象模糊的年代。我们好像都知道这段时间发生过重要的事，但是这段时间里平常到底有多不平常，我们了解得很少。在提到五六十年代的时候，学生经常被提起，然而教育在论述中却被省略。 为增进对新加坡从战后到独立前教育史的了解，圆切线正筹划一个结合五六十年代与中学生活、学生课余活动的展览，希望通过收集当时的文物资料，进行研究后，展示这段距离我们不远的年代里，华校与英校学生对文化、体育、社会政治活动的参与情况。我们也希望借此了解学生生活与活动在非殖民化过程，以及在当时新加坡的社会、政治与文化生活当中扮演的角色、产生的回响。 展览定于2007年11月在新加坡管理大学举行。我们首先要做的，是呼吁机构、团体和公众，从现在到今年底之前，捐献与这个时期、这个主题相关的物件。这些物件要能够反映当时的课外活动（比如运动、制服团体、学会或校外团体、活动），让人看到当时学生的关怀和兴趣，以及他们对重大的社会、政治动向的反应。这包括校刊、学校简讯、相片、徽章、歌纸、奖章、演出特刊、道具、运动装、制服、奖状、画作、日记簿、刊物等等。 逍遥游:1945年至1965年的中学生活与课余活动的另一项重要的元素，是我们希望一些学校历史悠久的学生也能够参与这次的计划，跟我们一起收集他们的学校的文物，并对他们的学长学姐的课外活动进行研究。学生与老师的参与，为我们借此展览建构的这段历史，带入当代的观点。 通过展览，圆切线希望鼓励不同年龄的参观者、参与者对自己所接受的教育进行反思，对那个年代与当下的教育、活动进行比较，了解自二次世界打战之后，学生生活发生了怎样的改变。我们需要用更宽阔的角度去看待过去，认识不同层面，才能体味新加坡历史与现实当中的微妙，建立更繁复多面的观念，以此来应付愈加复杂的未来。 有意捐献的公众，可以发电邮到tangent.the@gmail.com，或致电92466400。 这个计划，得到新加坡管理大学免费提供场地，国家图书馆为研究提供支援。 Press Release for Education at Large:An Exhibition of Student Life and Activities In Singapore, 1945-1965 Organised by The Tangent The Tangent is pleased to announce their plans on Education at Large: Student Life and Activities in Singapore, 1945-1965. This is an exhibition bringing together artefacts and texts from that period testifying to participation in cultural, sports and socio-political activities by students of English- and Chinese-medium schools. It aims to broaden our understanding of Singapore抯 educational history in the transitional period of post-war years and the country抯 independence. Education at Large also seeks to understand the ways in which student life and activities and resonated with, and contributed to, decolonisation processes as well as the wider social, political and cultural life of Singapore during the period. The exhibition will take place in November 2007 at The Singapore Management University, and The Tangent is calling for donations of relevant objects from institutions and the general public until December 2006. These objects should reflect the range of extra-curricular activities at the time (eg. sports, uniformed groups and clubs of various interests and activities outside schools), students?general concerns and interests, and students?responses to major social and political developments. Objects of interest include school magazines, school newsletters, photos, badges, song-sheets, medals, performance programs, props, sportswear, uniforms, awards, costumes, drawings, cartoons, memoirs, diaries, essays and actual preserved writings from the period. An important part of Education at Large will be the involvement of Singapore students themselves, primarily in the collection of artefacts and researching the history of student extra-curricular activity in their respective schools. Thus they will bring a contemporary slant in the construction of perspectives offered by the exhibition. The Tangent is a Singaporean civil society group which discusses issues mainly in the Chinese language and promotes cross-cultural communication among different segments of society. The group publishes a biannual bilingual journal and holds regular forums with local and overseas intellectuals. Through the viewing of the exhibition, perusal of associated materials (e.g. the catalogue, bibliography and possible anthologies of texts), and forums to be held during the same period, Education at Large encourages visitors of all ages to reflect on their own experiences in formal education in Singapore, and to bring up questions of education and activities in both this transitional period and the present. It is hoped that with a broader sense of how student life has evolved since World War II, more nuanced and complex perceptions of both of Singapore抯 past and its present will be formed, and thus pave the way to deal with an increasingly complicated future. If you have something to share with us, please email tangent.the@gmail.com or call 97325076. Venue Host: Singapore Management University Research Sponsor: National Library Board |
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