The education of young people is context bound. This edited volume explores the contexts that characterise South and South East Asia and their influence on social studies education. There is not a single context across this broad geographical expanse, rather different religions, different political systems and different values exert influences that create distinctive programmes that characterise different countries. Yet there are also commonalities such as the post-colonial nature of most of the countries portrayed in this book, determined efforts at establishing new national communities and multiple value systems that lead to distinctive local priorities. There are also voices of resistance in these chapters, recognising the realities of local contexts but also recognising the need for change. Social studies education in these contexts may well be descended from its origins in North America, but in South and South Asian contexts, it has taken on new purposes, new forms and new values.
Education researchers, policymakers and postgraduate students in comparative education will find the volume useful in its exploration and comparison of the social studies curricular and reforms that shaped them.
The education of young people is context bound. This edited volume explores the contexts that characterise South and South East Asia and their influence on social studies education.
Section 1 A Theoretical Perspective on Social Studies Education
1. An
exploration of social studies education in Asian contexts Section 2 Politics,
Culture and Reform in South and South East Asian Social Studies Education
2.
Postcolonial national identity formation through social studies: The case of
India
3. Developing loyal citizens: A case study of social studies education
in Pakistan
4. Social studies education in Bangladesh: Contextual influences,
reforms and development, and curriculum
5. Social studies education in
Singapore: From cultural transmission to social transformation
6. Social
studies curriculum in Thailand: A contested terrain
7. Social studies as
citizenship transmission in Indonesian schools
8. The development of social
studies education in Myanmar Section 3 Social Studies Education in South And
South East Asian Classrooms
9. Marginalised students and their contexts: A
case from India
10. Teaching and learning in social studies classrooms in
Pakistan
11. Civic and citizenship education in Bangladesh
12. Discussion and
inquiry in social studies
13. Noble character as a focus for moral
education in Malaysia
14. Adaptive model of social studies learning and
classroom culture in Indonesian schools
15. Teaching history in Myanmar:
Nation building or national reconciliation? Section 4 Lessons from Asian
Contexts for Social Studies Education
16. Interrogating the nature of Asian
social studies
Kerry J Kennedy isan Emeritus Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Advisor (Academic Development) at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg.
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