Malaysia's 1996 education act: the impact of a multiculturalism-type approach on national integration.  

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SEGAWA, Noriyuki

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia vol. 22 no. 01 (Apr. 2007), page 30.
Topik: Malaysia; 1961 Education Act; 1996 Education Act; Comparative Analysis; Chinese Malaysian; Chinese Community; Ambiguities; Impact; Multiculturalism-type Approach; National Integration; Assimilationism-type approach; Ethnic Polarization; Relationship
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This paper examines how Malaysia's 1996 Education Act, which is based on a multiculturalism-type approach, has influenced ethnic polarization in primary and secondary education. This is done through research on the enrolment trend of Chinese Malaysians. Most Chinese have not regarded the Act as an expression of a multiculturalism-type approach but rather as a continuation of the assimilationism-type approach that had been practiced since 1961. This is due in part to many ambiguities in the 1996 Act and in its implementation. The Act has, therefore, not influenced Chinese enrolment trends to any notable extent. The act and its many ambiguities have not worsened ethnic polarization either nor has it had much impact one way or another on national integration.

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