Education and State Formation Reconsidered
Chinese School Identity in Postwar Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ting‐hong Wong |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-265 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-6443.00203 |
| OpenAlex | W2665029271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
After WWII, Singapore launched decolonization and the state elites were under strong compulsion to blend the Chinese and other racial communities into a national whole. Chinese schools, equipping students with worldview and cultural-linguistic abilities very different from those at other schools, hindered the completion of this task. The state elites sought to resolve this problem by replacing Chinese schools, but this policy antagonized the Chinese and undermined the legitimacy of the ruling regime. To pacify the Chinese, they switched to uphold Chinese schools as an integral and distinct category in the education system. This strategy, nevertheless, kept Chinese schools culturally compartmentalized and sacrificed the objective of promoting interracial integration. To rectify this situation, the ruling authorities sought to blunt the cultural distinctiveness of Chinese schools by strengthening Chinese teaching in English schools. However, this policy was not very successful, because the Malays - the adversary of the Chinese - resented it. This study demonstrates that state formation is a complicated project containing conflicting tasks, it reminds us state hegemonic strategies always bring about contradictory results and the connection between education and state formation is always dialectical
Adversary · Aesthetics · Hegemony · Identity (music · Legitimacy · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian Studies and History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Education, Globalization and the Nation State
Hegemonies Compared
Post-Independence Educational Change, Identity and Huaxiaosheng Intellectuals in Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew in Malaysia
Dangerous Politics and the Malay Nationalist Movement, 1945–47
Anti-Christian Chinese Chauvinists and HDB Upgrades
Sino-Malay Relations in Peninsular Malaysia before 1942
The Grooming of an Elite
Sino-Malay Conflicts in Malaya, 1945–1946
The 1959 Singapore General Election
Law and Discipline in Nineteenth Century English State Formation
The Problem of Chinese Education in Malaysia and Singapore
Malayan Civil Service, 1874-1941 Colonial Bureaucracy/Malayan Elite
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |