Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia Issues and Challenges

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Reproduced from Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia: Issues and Challenges, edited by Lee Hock Guan (Singapore: ISEAS ...

The ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) is an autonomous organization established in 1 ...

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First published in Singapore in 2017 by ISEAS Publishing 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119614 E-mail: [email protected] ...

CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Lee Hock Guan English in Singapore and Malaysia: Common Roots, Dif ...

vi Contents Increasing Access to and Retention in Primary Education in Malaysia 142 Lorraine Pe Symaco Primary and Secondary Ed ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This volume had its origins in the workshop on “Education, Globalization and the Nation State in Southeast Asia ...

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CONTRIBUTORS Lubna Alsagoff is Associate Professor, English Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Educat ...

x Contributors Hena Mukherjee is an education consultant and was previously Lead Education Specialist with the World Bank. R. Sa ...

INTRODUCTION Lee Hock Guan Since Southeast Asian countries attained political independence,^1 they have created “national educat ...

2 Lee Hock Guan post-independent centralized governance and provision of education. In Southeast Asian states, in recent times t ...

Introduction 3 Importantly, minority groups’ education, cultural and language rights are articulated in the influential United N ...

4 Lee Hock Guan English as a subject has led to students failing to master communicative competence in that language. Unsurprisi ...

Introduction 5 improve efficiency, transparency, accountability and quality (London 2011; Suryadarma and Jones 2013; Welch 2011) ...

6 Lee Hock Guan The concept of internationalization, similar to that of privatization, is also rather vague and has changed rapi ...

Introduction 7 (Mandarin) and Tamil are all recognized as official languages, but only English is anointed as the medium of educ ...

8 Lee Hock Guan that use English as the in-house working language and the advent of ICT that relies on English as its operationa ...

Introduction 9 international, intercultural, or global dimension into the purpose, functions or delivery of post-secondary educa ...