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Education as a Political Tool in Asia (Paperback)
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Education as a Political Tool in Asia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
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This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning
what education is being used for and what the effects of the
politicisation of education are on Asian societies in the era of
globalisation. Education has been used as a political tool
throughout the ages and across the whole world to define national
identity and underlie the political rationale of regimes. In the
contemporary, globalising world there are particularly interesting
examples of this throughout Asia, ranging from the new definition
of Indian national identity as a Hindu identity (to contrast with
Pakistan's Islamic identity), to particular versions of nationalism
in China, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam. In Asia education systems
have their origins in processes of state formation aimed either at
bolstering 'self-strengthening' resistance to the encroachments of
Western and/or Asian imperialism, or at furthering projects of
post-colonial nation-building. State elites have sought to
popularise powerful visions of nationhood, to equip these visions
with a historical 'back-story', and to endow them with the maximum
sentimental charge. This book explores all of these developments,
emphasising that education is seen by nations across Asia, as
elsewhere, as more than simply a tool for economic development, and
that issues of national identity and the tolerance - or lack of it
- of ethnic, cultural or religious diversity can be at least as
important as issues of literacy and access. Interdisciplinary and
unique in its analysis, this book will be of interest to scholars
of political science, research in education and Asian Studies.
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