Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Table of Contents - 1974 - Volume 5, Special Issue 02 (The Centenary of British Intervention in Malaya)  

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (1974), 5:225-238 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1974
doi:10.1017/S0022463400013898

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A Review of the Educational Developments in the Federated Malay States to 1939

Philip Loh Fook-Seng

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An educational system reflects the norms and needs of the society it serves. In the Federated Malay States, a plural society, there were four separate school systems, each with its own distinctive characteristics. This paper discusses the British role in their development. The period studied extends from around 1900 to the outbreak of World War Two.

PHILIP LOH FOOK-SENG, a PhD Stanford University graduate, is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Malaya. His MA thesis entitled The Malay States, 1877–1895: Political Change and Social Policy has been published by the Oxford University Press in 1969. He is currently doing research on the social and political attitudes of Sixth Formers in Malaysian schools.