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National identity, language and education in Malaysia search for a middle ground between Malay hegemony and equality

"Explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by examining whether and how policies have succeeded in forming a middle ground. Considered through the lenses of policy-making structure and achievement, this vo...

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Main Author: Segawa, Noriyuki (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxon, UK New York, NY Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2019
Series:Asia's transformations
Subjects:
Assimilation (Sociology) > Malaysia
Education and state > Malaysia
Language and education > Malaysia
Language policy > Malaysia
Multiculturalism > Malaysia
National characteristics, Malaysian
Nation-building > Malaysia
Malaysia > Ethnic relations
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Table of Contents:
  • Language and education policies : shifting between assimilation and multiculturalism, 1957-present
  • Ethnic politics, electoral bargaining and negotiation
  • The nexus between development strategies and fluctuating policies
  • Malay preferential policies and nation-building
  • Search for a middle ground : soft assimilation language and education policies, 1960s-1980s
  • Search for a middle ground : accommodative multiculturalism language and education policies, 1990s-present
  • New approach towards national integration

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