As pressures mount to adopt new or alternative instructional
delivery methods to achieve innovative education, there has been
a strong orientation towards emphasising the need to integrate the
latest technological applications to achieve the best in teaching
and learning experiences. Moving away from this approach,
this article calls for an examination of one important concept in
innovative education, that is, context sensitive education. The case
study of an annual joint Singapore-Denmark-America summer
school programme to teach and study Southeast Asia in Context is
discussed here.