Language, Education and Nation-building: Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia / Edition 1

by P. Sercombe, R. Tupas

Overview

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403997463
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/24/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Bao Dat, Monash University, Australia Angela Cincotta-Segi, La Trobe University, Australia Rommel A. Curaming, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Maya Khemlani David University of Malaya, Malaysia Freddy Kirana Kalidjernih, University of Tasmania, Austral Tim Frewer, University of Sydney, Australia Christian Giordano, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Khin Khin, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Kimmo Kosonen, Payap University, Thailand Beatriz P. Lorente, University of Basel, Switzerland James McLellan, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australia Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii, US Kirk R. Person, SIL International Vu Hai Ha, Vietnam National University, Hanoi Lionel Wee, National University of Singapore

Table of Contents

Introduction; Ruanni Tupas and Peter Sercombe 1. Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education; Peter Sercombe 2. Diversity and 'Development': The Challenges of Education in Cambodia; Tim Frewer 3. From Sentimentalism to Pragmatism? Language-in-Education Policy Making in Timor-Leste; Rommel A. Curaming and Freddy Kalidjernih 4. Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia; Simon Musgrave 5. Language/ing in Education: Policy DIscourse, CLassroom Talk and Ethnic Identities in the Lao; Angela Cincotta–Segi 6. Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia; Maya Khemlani David and James McLellan 7. Language, Education and Nation-building in Myanmar; Khin Khin Aye and Peter Sercombe 8. A 'New' Politics of Language in the Philippines: Bilingual Education and the New Challenge of the Mother Tongues; Ruanni Tupas and Beatriz P. Lorente 9. The Minoritization of Languages in Singapore; Lionel Wee 10. Languages, Identities and and Education in Thailand; Kimmo Kosonen and Kirk R. Person 11. Language Policies in Modern-Day Vietnam: Changes, Challenges and Complexities; Phan Le Ha, Vu Hai Ha and Bao Dat Epilogue: The Dwindling and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies: Comparative Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective; Christian Giordano—

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'Ambitious and comprehensive in scope, this book presents the most up-to-date coverage of the tensions, dilemmas and social injustice resulting from the convergence of nationalism, neo-internal colonialism and neoliberal globalization in the diverse geopolitical and linguistic landscapes of Southeast Asia. The authors, however, also remind us of the creative agency of local social actors and how they craft out spaces for developing local language-based education programmes in the region.' Professor Angel Lin, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

Editorial Reviews

'Ambitious and comprehensive in scope, this book presents the most up-to-date coverage of the tensions, dilemmas and social injustice resulting from the convergence of nationalism, neo-internal colonialism and neoliberal globalization in the diverse geopolitical and linguistic landscapes of Southeast Asia. The authors, however, also remind us of the creative agency of local social actors and how they craft out spaces for developing local language-based education programmes in the region.' Professor Angel Lin, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

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