Teaching Strengths
- Presents relatively complex material and competing views clearly and concisely so that students have a springboard for engagement and discussion.
- Ensures that students are not just passive receivers of knowledge, but engage critically and constructively with the material presented.
- Tries to foster intellectual breadth and curiosity by encouraging students to ask adventurous questions and to work out possible answers for themselves.
- Encourages students to recognize that there are viable alternative views and to respect them.
- Works to ensure that the above outcomes obtain not just with the ‘good’ students, but also the ‘weaker’ ones.
Biodata
Cecilia Lim did her BA and MA in Philosophy at NUS, and received her Ph.D from the University of Pittsburgh. Her main interest is in 17th and 18th century Western philosophy, but she has secondary interests in environmental ethics and Chinese philosophy. She has published a book [Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’ Meditations, Routledge 2006], as well as papers in IR journals and edited volumes. As a teacher, she has contributed to CDTL publications, taken part in teaching seminars/conferences and was a member of the FASS FTEC in 2007/8 and 2008/9. She is currently a member of the steering committee for the Asia-Pacific Science Technology and Society Network.
Teaching Awards / Accolades
- NUS Award for Teaching Excellence (2004/5, 2005/6, 2006/7)
- FASS Excellent Teacher Award (2004/5, 2005/6, 2006/7)
- NUS ATEA Honour Roll (2007/8)
CDTL Publications
- “Shy Teachers and Large Groups”, CDTL Brief 9:3 (2006)
- “Coping with Diversity and Disparity in Graduate Teaching Modules”, in Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning (Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, NUS: 2005) pp.49-52. (Paper originally presented at the FASS-CDTL Symposium 2004)
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