This chapter presents six case studies of Grade 10 adolescents in Singapore schools to
develop portraits of youth purpose among adolescents in the Singapore education system …

In this chapter, we explore the idea of youth purpose as the basis for a purpose-driven vision
of schooling in Singapore. Beyond the performance-focused outcomes of education …

Purpose is a long-term intention to influence the world in ways both meaningful to oneself
and others. In other words, using one's gifts for others. Purpose is the fulfilling of one's …

International education achievement indicators potentially obscure students' localised
experiences of school. This paper examines adolescent purpose to understand what drives …

Presenting lessons from Singapore and Israel, this chapter highlights the first cross-national
study between Singapore and Israel in the field of youth purpose research. Despite …

The final chapter of the book offers a set of guiding pathways for purpose-driven schooling
based on the ideas that emerge from our research on youth purpose. Arising from the …

Questions about purpose, life meaning, and life satisfaction drive central debates about what
good education should look like in schools. This study compares adolescent purposes, life …

This article reviews the research literature on teaching and supporting purpose in
adolescence and young adulthood. An extensive search revealed that most studies on youth …

Life purpose combines personal meaning, future intention, active engagement and expected
beyond-the-self impact into a self-regulating beacon for decisions and actions. Interest has …

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of utilizing Erik Erikson's stages of
development in the education sector, specifically during the ages of 12 to 18 or the identity …