The Cultural Legacies Of Chinese Schools In Singapore And Malaysia

Author : Cheun Hoe Yow,Jingyi Qu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000340006

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The Cultural Legacies of Chinese Schools in Singapore and Malaysia by Cheun Hoe Yow,Jingyi Qu Pdf

This edited volume examines the historical development of Chinese-medium schools from the British colonial era to recent decades of divergent development after the 1965 separation of Singapore and Malaysia. Educational institutions have been a crucial state apparatus in shaping the cultural identity and ideology of ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia. This volume applies various perspectives from education theory to heritage studies in dealing with the cultural legacy and memory of such schools as situated in larger contexts of society. The book offers comprehensive practice-based analysis and reflection about the complex relationships between language acquisition, identity construction, and state formation from socio-political-cultural perspectives. It covers a broad range of aspects from identities of culture, gender, and religion, to the roles played by the state and the community in various aspects of education such as textbooks, cultural activities, and adult education, as well as the representation of culture in Chinese schools through cultural memory and literature. The readership includes academics, students and members of the public interested in the history and society of the Chinese diaspora, especially in South East Asia. This also appeals to scholars interested in a bilingual or multilingual outlook in education as well as diasporic studies.

Author : Ting Hui Lee
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814279215

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Chinese Schools in Peninsular Malaysia by Ting Hui Lee Pdf

The history of modern Chinese schools in Peninsular Malaysia is a story of conflicts between Chinese domiciled there and different governments that happened or happen to rule the land. Before the days of the Pacific War, the British found the Chinese schools troublesome because of their pro-China political activities. They established measures to control them. When the Japanese ruled the Malay Peninsula, they closed down all the Chinese schools. After the Pacific War, for a decade, the British sought to convert the Chinese schools into English schools. The Chinese schools decoupled themselves from China and survived. A Malay-dominated government of independent Peninsular Malaysia allowed Chinese primary schools to continue, but finally changed many Chinese secondary schools into National Type Secondary Schools using Malay as the main medium of instruction. Those that remained independent, along with Chinese colleges, continued without government assistance. The Chinese community today continues to safeguard its educational institutions to ensure they survive.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822032060816

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Ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

The nineteen articles in this volume examine the ethnic Chinese in Singapore, presenting a fascinating cross-country comparison between the past and the present. While some issues address the issues of tradition and modernity, others trace the process of change, especially economic, social and cultural change in terms of ethnic Chinese society, politics, identity, business and literature in these two countries.

Author : Zhang Zhixiong
Publisher : Zhixiong Zhang
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789810939526

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Chinese Education in Singapore by Zhang Zhixiong Pdf

Author : Grant Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000802139

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Education Reform Policy at a Japanese Super Global University by Grant Black Pdf

This book is a case study of policy translation at an elite Japanese university. Through an analysis of the implementation of government-funded reform policies, Black investigates the role of the university in society, the youth-to-work transition, and systems of organisational management operative at the university. Black was present throughout the initial adoption phase of the Super Global project, a policy project implemented at an elite Japanese university, the University of Tsukuba. Aligned with a basic critical realist perspective, the different components of his research are integrated in four levels of analysis: the macro level of policy, the organisation level of the university, the departmental level of the English Section, and the individual level of the student. The analysis and the different sources of data look at internal structures of the organisation and try to understand what the mechanisms of policy translation operative are in the integrated and overlapping complexity of the four levels of analysis. At the core of the research is the objective of understanding why things are as they are. The main theories to emerge from the case study serve to inform the judgements and decisions of practitioners or policy makers in this area. It is a telling case for internationalisation-focused education reform policy in Japan.

Author : Will Brehm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000359077

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Cambodia for Sale by Will Brehm Pdf

Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society’s Globalization and Education SIG Book Award Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods. Despite the government's best efforts since the 1990s to re-constitute a functioning system of public services, life remains organized around buying and selling virtually everything, from humanitarian aid to schooling and from religious good deeds to irrigation. Through an ethnography of one village, Cambodia for Sale argues that efforts to rebuild Cambodia after decades of conflict have resulted in various forms of everyday privatization. Although this is most notable in the education system, these practices of privatization can be found in multiple institutions that constitute social life, from the Buddhist pagoda to local government. The various efforts of international development are as much at fault for this reality as are the legacies of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. This argument unfolds through the life stories of six residents of the Preah Go village, who collectively depict everyday life through overlapping village institutions, systems, and histories. This is an insightful and valuable reference for scholars interested in educational development, Southeast Asian studies, and comparative education.

Author : Kia Soong Kua
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015048442514

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The Chinese Schools of Malaysia by Kia Soong Kua Pdf

Author : Karen M. Teoh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190495633

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Schooling Diaspora by Karen M. Teoh Pdf

Education has long been a cornerstone of Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese norms have also held that the less education and exposure to influence from outside the home a girl had, the more likely she would be to remain true to conventional domestic values and to remain morally upright. In the mid-nineteenth century, overseas Chinese communities encountered a new perspective via Western European and American missionary schools. Formal education could be not just helpful but integral to preserving female virtue and had the added benefit of elevating the socio-cultural status of the overseas Chinese. As a result, increasing numbers of girls began to attend school. Within a few decades, other groups who sponsored female education-local Chinese community leaders, mainland Chinese reformists, the British colonial government-were offering a competing approach: education for the sake of modernization. These diverse and sometimes divergent priorities preoccupied educators, parents, politicians, and, of course, the girls and women who attended these institutions. In this work, Karen Teoh relates the history of English and Chinese girls' schools that overseas Chinese founded and attended from the 1850s to the 1960s in British Malaya and Singapore. She examines the strategies of missionaries, colonial authorities, and Chinese reformists and revolutionaries for educating girls, as well as the impact that this education had on identity formation among overseas Chinese women and larger society. Such schools ranged from charitable missions operated by nuns who rescued orphans and prostitutes, to elite institutions for the daughters of the wealthy and powerful. They could tailor their curricula to suit the specific needs of female students, emphasizing domestic skills such as sewing and cooking, or, later, training for "women's work" in teaching, nursing, or secretarial jobs. They would help to produce what society needed, in the form of better wives and mothers, or workers and citizens of developing nation-states, while ensuring compliance with desired ideals. Chinese women in diaspora found that failing to conform to any number of state priorities could lead to social disapproval, marginalization, or even outright deportation. Overseas Chinese communities were mindful of these perils, and their responses were as myriad as their modes of identity construction and adaptation. They grappled with questions of how this project might support Chinese nationalism, absorb the best of British colonial influence, and strengthen their image as a stable, modern, and desirable population in their countries of settlement. Bridging Chinese and Southeast Asian history, British imperialism, gender, and the history of education, Schooling Diaspora shows how these diasporic women contributed to the development of a new figure: the educated transnational Chinese woman.

Author : Siao See Teng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814405553

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Education at Large by Siao See Teng Pdf

The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945OCo1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex but exciting times.Education-at-large broadens our understanding of Singapore''s educational history in the transitional period between the end of the Second World War and the country''s independence; examines the ways in which student activities and activism resonated with, and contributed to, the country''s wider social, political and cultural life, as well as the decolonisation process; and stimulates debates about Chinese education and student activism in Singapore.

Author : Jaime Koh,Lee-Ling Ho
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000124559315

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Culture and Customs of Singapore and Malaysia by Jaime Koh,Lee-Ling Ho Pdf

Explore the contemporary culture and traditional customs of Singapore and Malaysia in a volume that belongs on shelves in every high school and public library. Culture and Customs of Singapore and Malaysia examines all aspects of contemporary life in these two geographically close and historically and culturally connected nations, starting with the people fighting to maintain a balance between the new and the traditional. The book shows how religion has evolved through time in the two nations and examines how literature and traditional crafts thrive today. It highlights the performing arts and entertainment, noting how Western culture has influenced and shaped new customs. Housing and architecture, both modern and traditional, are discussed, along with cuisine and fashion. Students can use the book to analyze gender roles and family life. They can also read about the ways in which festivals are celebrated and can compare and contrast leisure activities of Singapore and Malaysia with their own. The volume concludes with a look to the future of these two evolving countries, both moving toward modernity, but still holding on to the traditions of the past.

Author : Sin Yee Koh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137503442

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Race, Education, and Citizenship by Sin Yee Koh Pdf

Transnational skilled migrants are often thought of as privileged migrants with flexible citizenship. This book challenges this assumption by examining the diverse migration trajectories, experiences and dilemmas faced by tertiary-educated mobile Malaysian migrants through a postcolonial lens. It argues that mobile Malaysians’ culture of migration can be understood as an outcome and consequence of British colonial legacies – of race, education, and citizenship – inherited and exacerbated by the post-colonial Malaysian state. Drawing from archival research and interviews with respondents in Singapore, United Kingdom, and Malaysia, this book examines how mobile Malaysians make sense of their migration lives, and contextualizes their stories to the broader socio-political structures in colonial Malaya and post-colonial Malaysia. Showing how legacies of colonialism initiate, facilitate, and propagate migration in a multi-ethnic, post-colonial migrant-sending country beyond the end of colonial rule, this text is a key read for scholars of migration, citizenship, ethnicity, nationalism and postcolonialism.

Author : Joseph B. Tamney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110814682

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The Struggle over Singapore's Soul by Joseph B. Tamney Pdf

Author : Ching-huang Yen,Qinghuang Yan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015041051361

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Community and Politics by Ching-huang Yen,Qinghuang Yan Pdf

Author : Liok Ee Tan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015041010318

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The Politics of Chinese Education in Malaya, 1945-1961 by Liok Ee Tan Pdf

In the 1950s, the future of Chinese education was the subject of intense debate in Malaya. The Politics of Chinese Education in Malaysia is a detailed history of the issues, personalities, and conflicts behind the crucial negotiations just before and just after Malaya's independence in 1957. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why the Chinese schools in Malaysia have been a source of political controversy ever since.

Author : Chee Beng Tan
Publisher : Fajar Bakti
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032796065

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Chinese Peranakan Heritage in Malaysia and Singapore by Chee Beng Tan Pdf

Collection of four essays on the Baba, that is, an ethnic group of Malay-speaking Straits Chinese.