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Reforming Literature Education in Malaysia 1957 – 2020: Development of Post-secondary Literature in English book cover

1st Edition

Reforming Literature Education in Malaysia 1957 – 2020 Development of Post-secondary Literature in English

By Jia Wei Lim Copyright 2025
226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Lim traces the complexities in construction and implementation of a school subject, namely Literature in English in Malaysia through a focused and grounded narrative where tensions regarding identity, reader response and conceptualisations about literature play out in a postcolonial context. The book demonstrates the need to think about school subjects as abstract concepts negotiated at various... Read more

1. Introducing the Malaysian education context  2. Selecting a lens to explore Literature in English as a school subject  Preamble: Explorations of Phase One ‘English’ (pre-1957 – 1980)  3. The Higher School Certificate ‘English’ curriculum  4. Glimpses of HSC ‘English’ classroom experiences  Preamble: Explorations of Phase Two ‘English’ (1981 – 1999)  5. The Malaysian Higher Education Certificate ‘English’ curriculum  6. Glimpses of Phase 2 ‘English’ classroom experiences  Preamble: Explorations of Phase Three ‘Literature in English’ (2000 – 2011)  7. The ‘Literature in English’ curriculum  8. Glimpses of ‘Literature in English’ classroom experiences  Preamble: Explorations of Phase Four ‘Literature in English’ (2012 – 2020)  9. SMK Ceria  10. SMK Pendekar  11. Weaving threads together  12. Moving onwards for ‘Literature in English’

Biography

Jia Wei Lim is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She has a PhD in education from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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