ABSTRACT
This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and analyzes the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region.
The book looks at how countries in Southeast Asia respond to the endogenous and exogenous influences in shaping their education systems. Chapters observe and study the interplay between education and power in Southeast Asia, which offers varying political, social, cultural, religious, and economic diversities. The political systems in Southeast Asia range from near consolidated democracy in Indonesia to illiberal democracy in Singapore and Thailand to the communist regime in Laos to absolute monarchy in Brunei. Structured in three parts, (i) centralization and decentralization, (ii) privatization and marketization, and (iii) equity and justice, these themes are discussed in single-country and/or multi-country studies in the Southeast Asian region.
Bringing together scholars from and focused on Southeast Asia, this book fills a gap in the literature on education in Southeast Asia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Centralization and Decentralization
chapter 121|18 pages
Mechanisms of Disempowerment
chapter 2|14 pages
The Influence of Global Education in Indonesia
chapter 3|16 pages
Access to Higher Education in Areas of Contested Authority
chapter 4|22 pages
Equilibrium and Conflict Paradigms in Language for Social and Educational Changes
part II|86 pages
Privatization and Marketization
chapter 6|20 pages
Counting the Costs of Free Education
chapter 7|12 pages
Neoliberalism Meets the Bumiputera Agenda
chapter 8|19 pages
Neoliberalism and the Privatization of Higher Education in Myanmar, Pre- and Post-Coup
chapter 9|17 pages
Counter-Hegemonic Discourses and Responses to Neoliberal Restructuring and Neocolonial Education
part III|83 pages
Equity and Justice