ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this chapter. The book on policy discourses of Malaysian education aimed at substantiating the inquest of how education has played a closely intertwined role with politics in shaping the country as a nation. The colonisation phase actually set the groundwork for the nation building challenge. The colonisers, that is the British, harboured an indifferent attitude to the education of the population prior to and at the time of independence. In the nationalisation phase, the grandeur vision of the government of the day was to create a single unified education system preferably with the medium of instruction in Malay. The socioeconomic restructuring movement may be set alongside others as a phase because of its duration over two decades from 1970–1990, and the impact it made on the society as a whole as well as the politics of the country.
