Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore

This unique study in the history of education examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore.

List of contents

Introduction

1. History in the Imperial Curriculum of Malaya and Singapore (1899-1930s)
2. Teaching History and Imperial Citizenship in the 1930s
3. The Beginnings of the ‘Decolonization’ of Colonial Education (1942-1952)
4. Creating an ‘Asia-Centric’ History Syllabus for a Malayan Nation (1952-1959)
5. Tensions over a Common National History in the Early Postcolonial State (1959-1965)
6. The Formation of a ‘Malaysian-Centric’ History Syllabus
7. Separation and a ‘Singapore-Centric’ History Syllabus

Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Kevin Blackburn is Associate Professor in History at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore (2017), and co-author, with Karl Hack, of War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (2012).
ZongLun Wu studied the development of the Singapore history syllabus during his graduate research at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. He has also taught history in the Singapore schools.

Summary

This unique study in the history of education examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries – Malaysia and Singapore.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Blackburn, Kevin (National Institute of Education Blackburn, Kevin Wu Blackburn, Blackburn Kevin, ZongLun Wu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781032092720
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3209272-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies in Educational History and Development in Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Malaysia, EDUCATION / General, History, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Research, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, EDUCATION / Curricula, Singapore, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Curriculum planning & development, Curriculum planning and development, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary