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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Serier: | Educational history and development in Asia.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.