Routledge Studies in Educational History and Development in Asia
About the Book Series
The books in this series will examine the history of education in the different countries of Asia. Themes in these studies will include, but are not confined to, the role of education in colonialism, the relationship between education and economic development, as well as education’s connections with identity, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, and nation-building. Studies will include works on the history of educational developments within one Asian country and works that are historical studies in comparative education.
Reforming Literature Education in Malaysia 1957 – 2020: Development of Post-secondary Literature in English
1st Edition
By Jia Wei Lim
December 26, 2025
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 ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism: A History
1st Edition
By Kay Whitehead
September 11, 2025
This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have played in Australia's history of school education. To date, there are few references to schooling in histories of Indigenous Australians, and Australian histories of ...
Women and Educational Reform in History: Japan in a Transnational World
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce Goodman, Setsuko Kagawa
June 27, 2025
This unique collection provides critical analyses of Japanese educational history by bringing together gender, transnational, and transcultural perspectives. It illustrates how Japanese, European, and American women educators transcended national borders in seeking to reform and re-shape Japanese ...
Indonesian Education: Past, Present, and Future
1st Edition
By I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Ace Suryadi, Dasim Budimansyah, Susilo Susilo
November 29, 2024
Offering an overview of the history, perspectives, and developments of education in Indonesia since the country’s independence in 1945, in this book, the authors raise awareness of education's impact on national development in this unique context. With more than 50 million students, 3 million ...
Rebuilding the Education Sector in East Timor during UNTAET: International Collaboration and Timorese Agency
1st Edition
By Trina Supit
May 06, 2022
This original volume examines the collaboration between East Timorese and international staff in the rebuilding of the education sector during the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) 1999-2002. Using interviews, contemporary newspaper articles and reports from UN ...
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore
1st Edition
By Kevin Blackburn, ZongLun Wu
June 30, 2021
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries – Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu’s book ...
Education, Industrialization and the End of Empire in Singapore
1st Edition
By Kevin Blackburn
August 14, 2018
Singapore under the ruling People’s Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation-building agenda. However, contrary to accepted assumptions, the use of education by the state to promote ...
The History of Education in Japan (1600 – 2000)
1st Edition
Edited
By Masashi Tsujimoto, Yoko Yamasaki
August 14, 2018
As one of the most rapid and earliest nations to achieve "Western modernisation", much of Japan’s success stems from its fruitful literacy history during the Tokugawa shogunate as well as later influences from Western educational ideals and consequent economic and democratic conflicts in Japan. ...