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Language, Education and Nation-building

Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia

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  1. Peter Sercombe

    1. Newcastle University, UK

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  2. Ruanni Tupas

    1. National Institute of Education, Singapore

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Language, Education and Nation-building in Southeast Asia: An Introduction

    • Ruanni Tupas, Peter Sercombe
    Pages 1-21

  3. Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education

    • Peter Sercombe
    Pages 22-44

  4. Diversity and ‘Development’: The Challenges of Education in Cambodia

    • Tim Frewer
    Pages 45-67

  5. From Sentimentalism to Pragmatism? Language-in-education Policy-making in Timor-Leste

    • Rommel A. Curaming, Freddy Kalidjernih
    Pages 68-86

  6. Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia

    • Simon Musgrave
    Pages 87-105

  7. Language/ing in Education: Policy Discourse, Classroom Talk and Ethnic Identities in the Lao PDR

    • Angela Cincotta-Segi
    Pages 106-130

  8. Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia

    • Maya Khemlani David, James McLellan
    Pages 131-147

  9. Language, Education and Nation-building in Myanmar

    • Khin Khin Aye, Peter Sercombe
    Pages 148-164

  10. A ‘New’ Politics of Language in the Philippines: Bilingual Education and the New Challenge of the Mother Tongues

    • Ruanni Tupas, Beatriz P. Lorente
    Pages 165-180

  11. The Minoritization of Languages in Singapore

    • Lionel Wee
    Pages 181-199

  12. Languages, Identities and Education in Thailand

    • Kimmo Kosonen, Kirk R. Person
    Pages 200-231

  13. Language Policies in Modern-day Vietnam: Changes, Challenges and Complexities

    • Phan Le Ha, Vu Hai Ha, Bao Dat
    Pages 232-244

  14. Epilogue — The Dwindling Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies: Comparative Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective

    • Christian Giordano
    Pages 245-261

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 262-264
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About this book

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.

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“For sociolinguists, this volume provides an excellent overview of the dynamic and complex interactions between language education and nation building projects in a vastly multilingual part of the world. … The insights and rich discussion in this volume are further evidence of the lively intellectual contribution that a community of like-minded professionals across this vast space is able to produce.” (Joseph Lo Bianco, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol. 19, 2015)


'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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Newcastle University, UK

    Peter Sercombe

  • National Institute of Education, Singapore

    Ruanni Tupas

About the editors

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

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