Education and Multiethnic Malaysia

ISBN-13: 9783848425044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 568 str.

Hazri Jamil

Opis

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 Appadurais (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.

O autorze

Dr. Hazri Jamil is a Senior Lecturer specializing in the areas of Educational Policy, Sociology of Education and Curriculum and Pedagogy, with Universiti Sains Malaysia. Currently, he is the Deputy Dean for Post Graduate Studies and Research in School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia.