Decolonizing the history curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore /

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu's book...

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Hlavní autoři: Blackburn, Kevin, 1965- (Autor), Wu, ZongLun (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]
Edice:Educational history and development in Asia.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2134571
Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • History in the imperial curriculum of Malaya and Singapore (1899-1930s)
  • Teaching history and imperial citizenship in the 1930s
  • The beginnings of the "decolonization" of colonial education (1942-1952)
  • Creating an "Asia-centric" history syllabus for a Malayan nation (1952-1959)
  • Tensions over a common national history in the early postcolonial state (1959-1965)
  • The formation of a "Malaysian-centric" history syllabus
  • Separation and a "Singapore-centric" history syllabus
  • Conclusion.