Postcolonial Education and Development in Peripheral Malaysia
eBook - ePub

Postcolonial Education and Development in Peripheral Malaysia

Building Scientific Aspirations

  1. 175 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Postcolonial Education and Development in Peripheral Malaysia

Building Scientific Aspirations

About this book

This book offers a compelling examination of Malaysia's ambitious '60:40 policy' which prioritizes science education as a pathway to national development.

Drawing on personal narratives and rural experiences, including the author's own family stories, this ethnographically rich study reveals how young Malaysians navigate aspirations for development through STEM education with profound ambivalence rather than wholesale acceptance. Aizuddin demonstrates how these experiences constitute critiques of development orthodoxy, challenging dominant narratives about science education's transformative power.

Essential for scholars of postcolonial studies, education policy and Southeast Asian development, this work provides nuanced insights into how peripheral communities negotiate the promises and contradictions of science-driven modernization in postcolonial nation-building.

Information

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Year
2026
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781529249675
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Development Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. On the Cover: Rumah Terengganu
  7. Artist’s Statement
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Series Editors’ Preface
  10. List of Figures
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Glossary
  13. About the Author
  14. It Takes a Kampung
  15. Introduction: Building the Nation, Building Young People
  16. 1 Malaysia as the (Scientific) Developmental State
  17. 2 Policy and the Production of Scientifically Educated Subjects
  18. Interlude: Accounting for Development
  19. 3 ‘Rasa’ of STEM Education: On Feeling, Capacity and Agency
  20. Interlude: Do You Believe in Ghosts?
  21. 4 Outside of the City: Postcolonial Aspirations through Development
  22. Conclusion: Changing Times, Changing Tracks
  23. Postscript: Still Dreaming in Numbers
  24. Notes
  25. References
  26. Index

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