Education and Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Azmil Tayeb is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia, a Visiting Research Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, and an Adjunct Professor at the Universitas Negeri Malang in Indonesia. He is the author of Islamic Education in Indonesia and Malaysia: Shaping Minds, Saving Souls (Routledge, 2018). Rosalie Metro is an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She is the author of three textbooks: Histories of Burma, Teaching US History Thematically, and Teaching World History Thematically. Will Brehm is an Associate Professor in Comparative and International Education at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is the author of Cambodia for Sale (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor, with Yuto Kitamura, of Memory in the Mekong (TC Press, 2022) and Public Policy Innovation for Human Capital Development (APO, 2020).

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