Mark C. Baildon

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) and Humanities and Social Studies Education (HSSE) at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore. I'm coordinator of the Master of Arts in Social Studies (MASS) programme and co-editor (with Ivy Tan) of HSSE Online: Research and Practice in Humanities and Social Studies Education. With James Damico, I'm presently working on a book, Social Studies as New Literacies: Living in a Global Society.

I am interested in questions about the relationships between disciplined inquiry and multiple literacies, how to support teachers' and students' inquiry and literacy practices, and epistemological issues related to disciplined inquriy and literacies. With Project TIME, I helped develop a Meaningful Learning Toolbox to support students' disciplined inquiry practices and I am presently working on the Critical Web Reader (CWR), a comprehensive set of Web-based literacy and technology tools designed to guide teachers and students to engage strategically with Web-based texts and technologies. A currently funded project is researching the ways secondary social studies teachers and students in Singapore use the CWR to develop inquiry and literacy practices with digital sources of information as they investigate global issues.