Language, Education and Nation-building: Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Language, Education and Nation-building in Southeast Asia: An Introduction....Pages 1-21
Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education....Pages 22-44
Diversity and ‘Development’: The Challenges of Education in Cambodia....Pages 45-67
From Sentimentalism to Pragmatism? Language-in-education Policy-making in Timor-Leste....Pages 68-86
Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia....Pages 87-105
Language/ing in Education: Policy Discourse, Classroom Talk and Ethnic Identities in the Lao PDR....Pages 106-130
Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia....Pages 131-147
Language, Education and Nation-building in Myanmar....Pages 148-164
A ‘New’ Politics of Language in the Philippines: Bilingual Education and the New Challenge of the Mother Tongues....Pages 165-180
The Minoritization of Languages in Singapore....Pages 181-199
Languages, Identities and Education in Thailand....Pages 200-231
Language Policies in Modern-day Vietnam: Changes, Challenges and Complexities....Pages 232-244
Epilogue — The Dwindling Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies: Comparative Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective....Pages 245-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-264