LOH Chin Ee

Loh Chin Ee is Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research) at the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education. She graduated from the University of Albany, State University of New York, where she was involved with literacy research projects at the Centre on English Learning and Achievement, including the National Study of Writing Instruction with Arthur Applebee and Judith Langer.

Formerly a secondary school teacher, she has taught at Raffles Girls’ Secondary School, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Yishun Town Secondary School. She currently teaches pre-service, inservice and postgraduate courses on literature education, reading and school libraries at NIE.

Chin Ee’s research focuses on literacy and literature education at the intersection of social class and globalisation. She is invested in using innovative research methods such as socio-spatial approaches and visual methods and drawing on insights from interdisciplinary connections to uncover insights about how better to improve students’ access to reading resources and practices. Her research has led to her current interests in the design of learning environments, school libraries and equity.

Findings from her Building a Reading Culture: A Nation-wide Study of Reading and School Libraries  have been widely shared and significantly improved policy and practice on reading and school libraries in Singapore, while contributing to the international body of knowledge. She is current working on the Designing Libraries of the Future Study and focusing on studies of reading in print and using technology.

Recent books published are The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Social Class and Reading in Singapore (Routledge, 2017) and Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times (Routledge, 2018).

Chin Ee is also the co-editor of Teaching Literature in Singapore Secondary Schools (Pearson, 2013), Little Things: an Anthology of Poetry (Ethos, 2013) and co-author of Teaching Poetry to Adolescents: a Teachers’ Guide to Little Things. Her work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Changing English, Literacy, Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy and Anthropology and Education Quarterly, among others. 

She is Book Review co-editor of  Pedagogies, an international journal, and founder of enl*ght, a NIE-based student-run publication for Literature teachers. She has spoken widely internationally and within Singapore on literature education, reading, school libraries and the design of learning environments.