Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia

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Table of Contents
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1 Ancient and colonial Southeast Asia: cultural and educational contexts
2 Understanding the cultural politics of Southeast Asian education through postcolonial theory
3 Downplaying difference: representations of diversity in contemporary Burmese schools and educational equity
4 Learner-centred pedagogy in post-conflict Timor-Leste: for the benefit of the learner or the learned?
5 Technology of dominance, technology of liberation: education in colonial and postcolonial Cambodia
6 Change and continuity in the history of Vietnamese higher education
7 Colonization by stealth: the case of Thailand
8 Paradoxes of discriminatory policies and educational attainment: Chinese Indonesians in contemporary Indonesia
9 Education politics in postcolonial Malaysia: ethnicity, difference and inequalities
10 The Singapore education journey: from colonialism to globalism
11 Unravelling the palimpsest: cultural layers of discomfort through three Southeast Asian literary texts in English
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