Asian Migrants and Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Social Bonding and Freedom

   • Wang GungWu

   Pages 1-13

3. Globalization, Asian Diasporas and the Study of Southeast Asia in the West

   • Anthony Reid

   Pages 15-25

4. The Mission School in Singapore

   • Robbie B. H. Goh

   Pages 27-37

5. Education and Identity Issues in the Internet Age

   • S. Gopinathan, V. Saravanan

   Pages 39-51

6. Interactions between Huiguan and Education in Postwar Singapore

   • Hong Liu

   Pages 53-64

7. The Case for a Culture Sensitive

   • Elwyn Thomas

   Pages 65-81

8. Immigrant Societies and Environmental Education

   • Christopher Pang Yew Huat

   Pages 83-92

9. Health Education of Hmong Refugees in Sydney

   • Jennifer Wang

   Pages 93-103

10. Confucian Education

    • Karen Leigh Harris

    Pages 105-114

11. A Century of Change

    • Tan Liok Ee

    Pages 115-131

12. Contemporary Educational Issues in Multicultural Immigrant Societies

    • Christine Inglis

    Pages 133-148

13. International Approaches to Valuing the Professional Skills of Permanent and Temporary Migrants

    • Robyn Iredale

    Pages 149-164

14. “Satellite Kids” in Vancouver

    • Johanna L. Waters

    Pages 165-184

15. Indian Diaspora and the Prospect of Open Learning

    • Ravindra Jain

    Pages 185-192

16. Back Matter

    Pages 193-223

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education is and what its functions should be. As Thomas explains, migrant communities need a culture-sensitive education, that is, an education that can both accommodate their special cultural needs and prepare them for life in an increasingly globalized world. To meet this need, Thomas discusses planning strategies and the special role of teachers in transmitting this education. As Thomas warns, however, a culture sensitive education is continually threatened by the dominance of the West and religious traditions, such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in global cultural flows. Pang raises the problem of modem, especially new and migrant, societies being unable to face the challenges of environmental issues. Some claim, for example, that these societies lack the right approaches to the environment or suffer from the inability to develop the proper "eco-ethic." To meet this problem, Pang draws the discussion back to the continued relevance of traditional education to contemporary issues facing a shrinking world: how immigrant societies and their diverse storehouses of traditional knowledge can inform current approaches to environmental management. In order to develop the necessary eco-ethic, migrant and other societies need to utilize old traditions relevant to environmental preservation in their production of modem education.

• Refugee
• education
• media
• migrants
• migration
• refugees

• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

  Michael W. Charney

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Tong Chee Kiong

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