Education and Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia (Paperback, 1)

Introduction. Exploring power dynamics in education across Southeast Asia I. Centralization and Decentralization Chapter 1. Mechanisms of disempowerment: interrogating cultural logics producing the "tiny teacher" in Thailand’s education system; Chapter 2. The influence of global education in Indonesia: PISA tests, different conceptions of national assessment, and the policymaking process; Chapter 3. Access to higher education in areas of contested authority: The case of Karen students in the KNU-controlled areas in Myanmar; Chapter 4. Equilibrium and conflict paradigms in language for social and educational changes: A case of English as medium of instruction in Indonesia II. Privatization and Marketization Chapter 5. The Corporatization of Vietnam’s Private Universities; Chapter 6. Counting the Costs of Free Education: Shared Household and Government Costs in Cambodian Lower Secondary Education; Chapter 7. Neoliberalism Meets the Bumiputera Agenda: Student Debt and Higher Education in Malaysia; Chapter 8. Neoliberalism and the Privatization of Higher Education in Myanmar, pre- and post-coup: "A Frame Based on a Fragile Foundation"; Chapter 9. Counter-hegemonic Discourses and Responses to Neoliberal Restructuring & Neocolonial Education: A Critical Evaluation of K-12’s Development and Implementation in the Philippines III. Equity and Justice Chapter 10. The Scholars: Talent management techniques and gender inequality in state-sponsored scholarships; Chapter 11. Vocational learning as infrastructure in Vietnam; Chapter 12. Bringing Trans-women "back to Fitrah": Islamic (Re)education/rehabilitation projects and discourses in Malaysia; Chapter 13. Orang Asli Community Learning Centers and Indigenous Resurgence; Chapter 14. Network of Opportunity or Network of Inequality?; Conclusion. Re/thinking Regionally about Power and Education