Education in Malaysia Developments and Challenges

This book examines Malaysia’s educational landscape, providing a contemporary study of key themes that have emerged in this multicultural, multi-ethnic society, as it attempts to shift from a middle-income to a high-income nation. Combining contributions

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Moses Samuel Meng Yew Tee Lorraine Pe Symaco Editors

Education in Malaysia Developments and Challenges

EDUCATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: ISSUES, CONCERNS AND PROSPECTS Volume 39 Series Editors-in-Chief Professor  Rupert  Maclean, Office of Applied Research and Innovation, College of the North Atlantic - Qatar, Doha Dr Lorraine Pe Symaco, Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education (CRICE), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Editorial Board Professor Bob Adamson, The Education University of Hong Kong, China Dr Robyn Baker, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, New Zealand Professor Michael Crossley, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Ms Shanti Jagannathan, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines Dr Yuto Kitamura, University of Tokyo, Japan Professor Colin Power, Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Professor Konai Helu Thaman, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Advisory Board Professor  Mark  Bray, UNESCO Chair, Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, China; Professor Yin Cheong Cheng, The Education University of Hong Kong, China; Professor John Fien, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia; Dr Pham Lan Huong, International Educational Research Centre, Ho Chi Minh City,  Vietnam; Dr  Chong-Jae  Lee, Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI), Seoul, Republic of Korea; Ms Naing Yee Mar, GIZ, Yangon, Myanmar; Professor  Geoff  Masters, Australian Council for Educational Research, Melbourne,  Australia; Margarita  Pavlova, The Education University of Hong Kong, China; Dr  Max  Walsh, Secondary Education Project, Manila, Philippines; Dr Uchita de Zoysa, Global Sustainability Solutions (GLOSS), Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Moses Samuel • Meng Yew Tee Lorraine Pe Symaco Editors

Education in Malaysia Developments and Challenges

Editors Moses Samuel Faculty of Education University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Meng Yew Tee Faculty of Education University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lorraine Pe Symaco Faculty of Education University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ISSN 1573-5397     ISSN 2214-9791 (electronic) Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ISBN 978-981-10-4426-7    ISBN 978-981-10-4427-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4427-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017942743 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this