Language, education and nation-building : assimilation and shift in Southeast Asia / edited by Peter Sercombe, Newcastle University, UK and Ruanni Tupas, National Institute of Education, Singapore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sercombe, Peter G., editor.

Tupas, T. Ruanni F., editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in minority languages and communities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Southeast Asia.

Sociolinguistics.

Language planning--Southeast Asia.

Language planning.

Education--Southeast Asia.

Education.

Language and culture.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Languages.

Language and languages.

Language and culture--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 264 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Baskingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"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. The individual chapters each represent one of the countries in the region, namely Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Written by established and well-known scholars of language, education and politics in Southeast Asia, the chapters examine the place of minority or non-dominant languages in nation-building agendas and practices, as well as their impact both on the linguistic ecology of specific countries and on the cultural, socio-economic and political well-being of their speakers. With a recent worldwide push towards multilingual education as one way to address the cultural, political and economic marginalization of millions of people around the world, this volume also examines the possibilities and challenges of implementing mother tongue-based education programmes in the region"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

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 Frewer3. From Sentimentalism to Pragmatism? Language-in-Education Policy Making in Timor-Leste; Rommel A. Curaming and Freddy Kalidjernih4. Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia; Simon Musgrave5. Language/ing in Education: Policy DIscourse, CLassroom Talk and Ethnic Identities in the Lao; Angela Cincotta-Segi6. Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia; Maya Khemlani David and James McLellan7. Language, Education and Nation-building in Myanmar; Khin Khin Aye and Peter Sercombe8. A 'New' Politics of Language in the Philippines: Bilingual Education and the New Challenge of the Mother Tongues; Ruanni Tupas and Beatriz P. Lorente9. The Minoritization of Languages in Singapore; Lionel Wee10. Languages, Identities and and Education in Thailand; Kimmo Kosonen and Kirk R. Person11. Language Policies in Modern-Day Vietnam: Changes, Challenges and Complexities; Phan Le Ha, Vu Hai Ha and Bao DatEpilogue: The Dwindling and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies: Comparative Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective; Christian Giordano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781403997463

1403997462

OCLC:

883304808