Associate Professor Teofilo C Daquila

Fellow

Teaching Aspirations

"My students have always been my priority. My goal is to provide them with an effective teaching and learning environment that would be useful not only during their time of study but more importantly for the rest of their lives. I have aspired to become an excellent teacher and contribute to the development of the workplace and lifelong skills of my students including critical thinking, creativity, independent learning, effective communication and interpersonal skills, rigorous inquiry, and the use of evidence and arguments.”

Teaching Strengths

• engaging diverse groups of students
• demystifying economic theories and concepts and relating them to real world situations
• using inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches
• using small group activities including seminars and case studies
• interactive teaching and learning environment
• using computer-based and multimedia technology

Biodata

A/P Teofilo C. Daquila is Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and Assistant Head of the Southeast Asian Studies Department at NUS where he has taught since 1996. He has also served as Graduate Studies Coordinator of the MA in SEA Studies coursework programme, and the Academic Coordinator of the Joint MA Degree Programme in SEA Studies between NUS and the Australian National University (ANU). He has been appointed a member of the NUS General Education Committee and a member of the steering committee for the FASS Science, Technology and Society Research Cluster.He held teaching appointments at the ANU, Deakin University, University of Melbourne, George Washington University, Chulalongkorn University, and Korea University. He received visiting research fellowships/grants from the ANU, Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies & El Colegio de Mexico, ASEAN University Network & the Korea Association for Southeast Asian Studies, Lee Foundation Singapore, and NUS. He teaches a wide range of modules on the economies of and economic regionalism in Southeast Asia. His research interests include international education, migration, economic development and regionalism, and the teaching and learning of Asian economics and business. He is currently working on a research project entitled “Internationalising Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Australia, Japan and Singapore” using six universities as case studies: ANU, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Kyoto and NUS.  Preliminary results of this project were presented in seminars and conferences including those organised by the National Higher Education Institute (Malaysia, 2007), Asia Pacific Educational Research Association (Singapore, 2008), Centre for the Study of Higher Education (University of Melbourne, 2009) and the Consortium for Asian and African Studies (INALCO Paris, 2010). He is an editorial board member of the Korea Review of International Studies, and the Global Economy and Finance Journal. His recent book publications include ‘The Economies of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand’ (New York, 2005), ‘Regionalism and Multilateralism: ASEAN in the Global Economy’ (Manila, 2005), and ‘The Transformation of Southeast Asian Economies’ (New York, 2007).

Following his bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in engineering, A/P Daquila commenced his graduate studies at the University of the Philippines School of Economics and obtained his M.A. degree (with Distinction) from the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (Belgium). Subsequently, he completed his PhD in economics at the Australian National University. 

Teaching Awards / Accolades

• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award:  2003/04,  2007/08, 2009/10
• Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award: 2003/04,  2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10
• Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Committee, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2011/12
• Centennial Most Outstanding Alumni Award (Education), CLSU Philippines, 2007
• Trainor/Facilitator, Professional Development Programme (Teaching), CDTL NUS, 2009, 2011
• Best Conference Presenter Award,  The First Global Business & Finance Research Conference, London, July 2003)

CDTL Publications

"Eleven years of teaching experience”, in Reflections on Teaching: The NUS Experience, (Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, NUS: 2000), pp.99-100.

"Teaching economics in a multi-disciplinary environment", in Innovative Approaches to University Teaching and Learning(CDTL, NUS: 2005), pp.24-30. (A shorter version published in Ideas on Teaching, CDTL, Mar 2005, pp.52-53; original version presented at the 2nd FASS-CDTL Symposium 2004).

"Teaching economics in area studies: challenges and responses",  presented at the Oxford Business and Economics Conference, St. Hughes' College, Oxford University, June 2007.

"Teaching economics in area studies: challenges and responses",  presented at the Oxford Business and Economics Conference, St. Hughes' College, Oxford University, June 2007.

"Using case studies in teaching & learning”, in CDTLink,  (CDTL, NUS: Aug 2010), p.17.

“International student mobility: A comparative study between Australia and Singapore”, in Contemporary Issues in the Global Higher Education Marketplace: Prospects and Challenges, edited by Morshidi Sirat and Sarjit Kaur, National Higher Education Research Institute, Malaysia: Monograph 15/2010, pp.23-54.