Southeast Asian Education in Modern History: Schools, Manipulation, and Contest

ISBN-13: 9781138063181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Pia Maria Jolliffe; Thomas Richard Bruce

Opis

This book contributes to a better understanding of the experience of educational development in Southeast Asia by presenting a collection of micro-historical studies on the subject of education, policy and practice in the region from the emergence of modern education to the end of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Introduction, Pia Maria Jolliffe and Thomas Richard Bruce 1. Myanma identity and the shifting value of the classical past: A case study of King Kyansittha in Burmese history textbooks, 1829-2017, Rosalie Metro 2. The legend of the ‘lost book’ and the value of education among the Karen people in Myanmar and Thailand, Pia Maria Jolliffe 3. The Modernisation of Female Education and the Emergence of Class-conflict Between Literate Groups of Women in Siam 1870-1910, Natanaree Posrithong 4. Thailand’s Early Adult Education in Textbooks: Inclusion, Exclusion and Literacy, 1940-1944, Wasitthee Chaiyakan 5. Contesting ‘Chinese’ Education: Schooling in the Kuomintang Chinese Diaspora in Northern Thailand, 1975 – 2015, Aranya Siriphon and Sunanta Yamthap 6. The Emergence of Vocational Education, Modern Shoemaking and a National Economy in Thailand, 1895-1973, Thomas Richard Bruce 7. Vần quốc ngữ: Teaching Modernity through Classics: Women's Education in Colonial Vietnam, Marta Lopatkova 8. Tinkering your way to prosperity: technical education, auto-mechanics and entrepreneurship in late-colonial Vietnam, Erich DeWald 9. Despite Education: Malaysian Nationhood and Economic Development in Retrospect, 1874-1970, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux 10. Full colour illustrations: Presentations of race in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1965-2000, Theophilus Kwek 11. State and Islamic Education Growing into Each Other in Indonesia, Kevin W. Fogg 12. American Education in the Philippines and Filipino Values, Jeremiah A. Lasquety-Reyes