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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED026401 AUTHOR: Radcliffe, David J.
TITLE: Education and Primary Development in Malaya 1900
1940; A Study of the Malay Community. Final Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1968
NOTE: 77 p.
ABSTRACT: This study investigated low-level primary
education of rural village schools in Malaya to determine
the influence of education in the development of the
Malaysian community during the period from the 1890's to
1941. In addition, the concept that the "mass" can develop
into an "audience" with specific interests and demands was
considered. The four sources of information for the
research were official government records in London and
Kuala Lumpur, interviews with Malay schoolteachers, the
pre-war Malay press, and a local survey in the subdistrict
of Ulu Langat, Selangor, Malaya. The investigation revealed
that, at the establishment of the colonial government
(1896), the Malays of the Federated Malay States were not
a homogeneous community, but a diversity of Malaysian
peoples. The period of British rule saw the emergence of
the Malay community as colonial policies caused both
stimulation and reaction.
Among the educational forces contributing to the creation
of a cultural community were the government Malay
vernacular
primary schools, the trained Malay schoolteachers, the
Islamic religious teachers, and the secular Malay
vernacular
press. (Author/JS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Anthropology-; Community-; Community
Characteristics; Cultural-Interrelationships; Cultural
Pluralism; Group-Structure; Group-Unity; History-;
Political
Attitudes; Religious-Cultural-Groups; Social-Change; Social
Integration; Social-Studies; Social-Systems; Social-Values;
Sociology-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Acculturation-; *Community-Development;
*Community-Education; *Social-Sciences; *Sociocultural
Patterns
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