Educational Issues in Multiethnic Malaysia
Author | : Yao Sua Tan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9789670630076 |
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Author | : Yao Sua Tan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9789670630076 |
Author | : Tan Yao Sua |
Publisher | : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 6297575010 |
Education in multiethnic societies is a subject of considerable debates in almost all parts of the world. These debates have invoked strongly-felt positions between competing ethnic groups over a host of issues that have a profound impact on the nation building process. Apart from deep-seated issues arising from contrasting internal demands over educational rights and equality, emerging issues arising from external influences such as the global spread of English as a result of globalisation have also impacted the nation building process of multiethnic societies. It is against this context that educational issues in multiethnic societies merit our attention. In the case of Malaysia, discourses over these issues are particularly intense and hotly contested by the different ethnic groups. This is primarily because of the extreme difficulties in mediating these complicated issues which are impinged by competing socio-cultural, economic and political interests. This book explores the contested terrains of education in multiethnic Malaysia. It comprises seven chapters that cover three crucial areas of educational provisions and delivery, namely education of ethnic minorities, education and national integration, and educational language policy. These three crucial areas are often the prime concerns of policy makers in multiethnic societies who have to tread a thin line in resolving these issues which are underpinned by intense coterminous interests and inter-ethnic competition, and having the potential to generate conflicts, contestation and power struggle. As far as the Malaysian policy makers are concerned, their efforts in resolving these issues have not been overly successful. It is most unfortunate that their policy decisions are at times influenced by competing political and ethnic interests rather than guided by sound theoretical underpinnings that could put the educational development of the country on a stronger platform and a clearer trajectory.
Author | : R. Santhiram |
Publisher | : Child Information Learning and Development Centre |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Children of immigrants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Suseela Malakolunthu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1317283805 |
Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has become a globally-recognised industrial trading partner. With a 60% Muslim population, it also enjoys the reputation of being a moderate and peaceful nation. However, with just a short time left to realising its Vision 2020 of developed nationhood, the pathway of nation building still seems ambiguous. There is a brewing tension in its race and ethnic relations which has permeated the various fronts, namely politics, society, economics and education. This book analyses the education policies that have been formulated and implemented in Malaysia since independence. It demonstrates how these policy enactments have influenced the nation’s growth and transformation, and the challenges faced in creating a model of equity and multicultural co-existence among its racially and ethnically diversified people. Shedding light on these issues, it points towards the major mending that is needed for Malaysia to become a truly developed nation. Chapters include: Education of ethnic minorities in Malaysia: Contesting issues in a multiethnic society Access and equity issues in Malaysian higher education Graduate employability in government discourse: A critical perspective This comprehensive book is a case study on Malaysia that will supplement researchers and advance students in their understanding of a multi-racial society’s perspective and attitude towards education.
Author | : Yao Sua Tan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789672165699 |
Author | : Hazri Jamil |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783848425044 |
This study investigates education policy in Malaysia aimed at achieving national integration across ethnic groups. The analyses are framed by theoretical considerations of ethnicity, nation, nation-building and plural society and the role of education policy in relation to them. The historical analyses demonstrated the ongoing effects of colonial residues in contemporary education policy and the ongoing ethnic-based contestation around the policy and accommodative state strategies utilised. The interview analyses demonstrated the contested nature of the concept of integration, tensions in the application of a bumiputera/non-bumiputera binary in policy, Malay concerns over their rights and economic opportunities, and Chinese and Indian concerns for language and cultural maintenance. The analyses demonstrated how in Appadurai s (1996) terms the nation (ethnic cultures and languages) and the state (politics and policy) have remained the project of each other in Malaysian education policy aimed at national integration. The research showed that concern for national integration has retained meta-policy status within Malaysian education.
Author | : Tan Yao Sua |
Publisher | : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 6297575045 |
The existence of an ethnic divide is a common problem in multiethnic societies, more so when these societies are straddled with contradictions reflected in their socioeconomic and political composition and configuration. The existence of an ethnic divide in the educational sector is most unfortunate since one of the fundamental purposes of schooling in multiethnic societies is to achieve a common process of socialisation and enculturation among the different ethnic group to achieve a strong sense of social cohesion. While Malaysia has aspired to provide a common or uniform system of schooling for the different ethnic groups since Independence, such an aspiration was however compromised by the co-existence of alternative pathways of education that are divided along ethnic lines. There are four dimensions underpinning these ethnic divisions, namely linguistic, preferential, religious and class. This monograph explores the emergence and subsequent developments of these alternative pathways of education and their impact on Malaysia’s nation-building process.
Author | : Nordin Mamat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Early childhood education |
ISBN | : 9783659226694 |
Author | : Hamoon Khelghat-Doost |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Combating parochialism |
ISBN | : 9781901919516 |
"After nearly hall a century of independence, the challenge of building a truly Malaysian nationhood somehow still eludes the nation, while challenges lurk in every corner of an increasingly borderless economy and world order. The education system was accused of smothering creativity and critical thinking and, more significantly of engendering racial polarisation and parochialism." "Such concerns about the state of racial polarisation in society and schools have emerged to provoke a renewal of debate about the state of education in Malaysia today. This book brings additional perspectives to this continuing debate of national importance."--BOOK JACKET.