Mark C. Baildon

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor and Deputy Head in Humanities and Social Studies Education (HSSE) at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore. With James Damico, I've recently published a new book, Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom. Please visit the website Social Studies for Singapore Teachers for information about social studies and humanities education in Singapore.  

My research and scholarship primarily focus on ways to support social studies inquiry practices and 21st century literacies in new global contexts. I am especially interested in questions about the relationships between social studies inquiry and new literacies, ways to better support teachers' and students' inquiry and literacy practices, especially with new media, technologies, and digital texts, and epistemological issues related to social studies inquiry and literacies.

I am presently involved with the Critical Web Reader (CWR) at Indiana University, a comprehensive set of Web-based inquiry, literacy, and technology tools designed to guide teachers and students to engage strategically with Web-based texts and technologies. A currently funded project at the National Institute of Education 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.

Other areas of research include citizenship education, the role of social studies education in global contexts, and ways to improve history education in Singapore.