Is the world better off because your school is in it? Do you believe schooling has a higher purpose? In Inspiring Purpose in High-Performance Schooling, Mary Anne Heng questions modern-day schooling with its dominant focus on what is efficient and effective in good education and how this is measured.

Mary Anne Heng is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research focuses on critical issues and interrelationships in teaching, learning, policy and leadership for purposeful and transformative educational change. Her work has been published in top education journals.

1. What are we doing schools for? 2. Why we need to do schools differently: From high-performance schooling to purpose-driven schooling 3. Meaning in school and life: Finding one's gifts 4. Purpose in school and life: Using one's gifts for others 5. Youth purpose portraits and sources of influence 6. Big lessons from Singapore and Israel 7. Inspiring pathways to purpose: What can educators do?