“In the early years, we mainly focused on launching short enrichment programmes, particularly to fill in the gap of not just ‘what to learn’ but ‘how to learn’ or the craft of learning, as well as the development of the mindset,” says Chiem in an interview with The Edge Singapore.
As a film and theatre graduate, David Chiem has always been fascinated by how theatre can positively affect pedagogy.
Chiem got to put research into practice after he founded education research centre MindChamps in Sydney in 1998 and opened its first preschool in Singapore in 2008.
