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    Malaysia’s Gallant School System in Need of an Overhaul

    Guan, Lee Hock | October 2016
    Abstract
    A recent controversial pronouncement by the Sultan of Johor state on the language of instruction in Malaysian schools immediately brought renewed attention to the present condition of the education system in the country. The Sultan had called for English to be further encouraged as the medium of instruction. The issue represents the tip of the iceberg of controversies over the education of the young which have plagued the country since its very beginnings. For starters, it discouraged the newly independent Malaysia from adopting a monolingual education system as a means to unify its ethnically diverse populations into a one-nation, one-language community. Instead, decolonization politics resulted in the continuation of the British colonial state’s multilingual school system that, after independence, evolved into Malay-medium primary and secondary national schools and vernacular Chinese and Tamil primary schools. Policy makers such as the pioneering educationist Aminuddin Baki, were already aware of the potential centrifugal effect of a multilingual education in encouraging schooling to occur along ethnic lines. The initial plan was to turn the Malay-medium national schools into the preferred education stream for all ethnic groups. Instead, various developments and exclusivist policies and programmes after 1971 accentuated ethnic segregation in the educational system. This essay highlights some key aspects of ethnic segregation in the public educational system, especially at the primary and secondary school levels.
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    Guan, Lee Hock. 2016. Malaysia’s Gallant School System in Need of an Overhaul. © ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9156.
    ISSN
    2335-6677
    Keywords
    Development Planning
    Development Research
    Technology Development
    Aid And Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Comprehensive Development Framework
    Development Cooperation
    Development Management
    Development Planning
    Development Strategies
    Development Research
    Green revolution
    Development strategy
    Development models
    Economic development
    New technology
    Rural planning
    Aid coordination
    Industrial projects
    Infrastructure projects
    Natural resources policy
    Educational development
    Absorptive capacity
    Tourism policy
    Development strategy
    Rural planning
    Regional development bank
    Project finance
    Strategic planning
    Infrastructure projects
    Government programs
    Public finance
    Public enterprises
    Development
    Economics
    Development In East Asia
    Development Planning
    Development Research
    Technology Development
    Aid And Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Comprehensive Development Framework
    Development Cooperation
    Development Management
    Development Planning
    Development Strategies
    Development strategy
    Development models
    Economic development
    New technology
    Rural planning
    Aid coordination
    Industrial projects
    Infrastructure projects
    Natural resources policy
    Educational development
    Absorptive capacity
    Economic development projects
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    Economic development projects
    Municipal government
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    Exchanges of patents and technical information
    Technical education
    Technology
    Communication in rural development
    Communication in community development
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    Cumulative effects assessment
    Human rights and globalization
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