Language, Education and Nation-building

Bao Dat, Monash University, Australia Angela Cincotta-Segi, La Trobe University, Australia Rommel A. Curaming, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Maya Khemlani David University of Malaya, Malaysia Freddy Kirana Kalidjernih, University of Tasmania, Austral Tim Frewer, University of Sydney, Australia Christian Giordano, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Khin Khin, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Kimmo Kosonen, Payap University, Thailand Beatriz P. Lorente, University of Basel, Switzerland James McLellan, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australia Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii, US Kirk R. Person, SIL International Vu Hai Ha, Vietnam National University, Hanoi Lionel Wee, National University of Singapore

Introduction; Ruanni Tupas and Peter Sercombe 1. Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education; Peter Sercombe 2. Diversity and 'Development': The Challenges of Education in Cambodia; Tim Frewer 3. From Sentimentalism to Pragmatism? Language-in-Education Policy Making in Timor-Leste; Rommel A. Curaming and Freddy Kalidjernih 4. Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia; Simon Musgrave 5. Language/ing in Education: Policy DIscourse, CLassroom Talk and Ethnic Identities in the Lao; Angela Cincotta–Segi 6. Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia; Maya Khemlani David and James McLellan 7. Language, Education and Nation-building in Myanmar; Khin Khin Aye and Peter Sercombe 8. A 'New' Politics of Language in the Philippines: Bilingual Education and the New Challenge of the Mother Tongues; Ruanni Tupas and Beatriz P. Lorente 9. The Minoritization of Languages in Singapore; Lionel Wee 10. Languages, Identities and and Education in Thailand; Kimmo Kosonen and Kirk R. Person 11. Language Policies in Modern-Day Vietnam: Changes, Challenges and Complexities; Phan Le Ha, Vu Hai Ha and Bao Dat Epilogue: The Dwindling and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies: Comparative Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective; Christian Giordano ?