Beyond the 'Dong Zong issue'

Beyond a 'Dong Zong issue'

by Azly Rahman

in Malaysiakini

I read with seductiveness about ongoing bureaucratic taste opposite Chinese schools, as highlighted by Dong Zong.

Why have been peculiarity teachers as good as an abundance of resources still channeled only to Malay-dominated schools? Why have been young kids in Chinese schools criminalised by a 'sanction upon training staff" which will ultimately deprive students of a great mother-tongue education?

What essentially is a seizure with regard to denial of a students' right to their own language? Do policy makers essentially assimilate a relationship in between culture, cognition, consciousness as good as citizenship?

What does patriotism meant these days, as good as how do you assimilate it vis-a-viz use of denunciation in s! chools? Whose code of patriotism is being made widespread as good as what should an inclusive a single demeanour like?

What is a genuine emanate behind a age-old request for a Chinese schools to have some-more teachers? How have been a young kids criminalised by all this? Where is a pacific trail to this peaceful profession called education?

When you consider of education, you consider of a young kids initial as good as foremost. you consider of any kid as a present brought in to this universe in all his/her informative as good as cognitive complexities as good as of a honour of a family raising a kid independent of what a 'state' wants a kid to become.

Schooling is a process of mass babysitting in a capitalist state, such which a kid will be supposing a place for eight hours a days, seven days a week, to be taken caring of, similar to in a kibbutz, while a parents go to work, offered their labour to a state.

The kid is ostensible to behave as good as sense code new things while a parents have been ostensible to be obedient and, as great workers, move distinction to a state. The state, through its apparatuses, uses a profits as good as products of 'alienated labour' of parents/workers as good as 'develops' a country according to what a domestic as good as economic elite imagines what 'development' means.

The kid gets to be socialised to turn citizens of a state. The mass baby-sitting agencies called public, in isolation or prejudiced schools, tended by 'managers of virtue' called teachers - as good as wardens' in boarding schools.

Their purpose is to ensure which a kid learns to turn nationalistic or even 'patriotic' in suitability to what this means vis-a-viz state ideology. In Malaysia, a stream beliefs is maybe called '1Malaysia'.

Polarised preparation system

Are schools a happy place for a child? How shall a kid be moulded? Wha! t langua ge will he/she be proficient in? Whose enlightenment will he/she inherit? In Malaysia, will it be a enlightenment of a Malays? Or a hybrid of a Malay-Muslim culture? Who defines what will be it in a most appropriate interests of a child?

What essentially is Malaysia's truth of preparation in this age as good as time of flourishing restlessness perfectionist for in advance change, inclusiveness, linguistic farrago as good as competency, as good as a final of a globalised world?

Why not let a kid be schooled good initial in his/her mother-tongue to rise informative pride, as good as subsequent let a middle of instruction during a delegate level be in English primarily?

Why not learn even a subject of Islamic St! udies as good as Moral Education in English, as good as subsequent hope for a kid good for tertiary preparation which is primarily English-speaking, with courses such as Philosophy, Ethics, as good as Cultural Studies as compulsory first-year subjects?

Malaysians: Let us not be dishonest, ignorant or false in a way you pattern a most appropriate informative as good as cognitive sourroundings for a kid to grow up to turn world-wise as good as productive citizens. As it is now, Malaysia's preparation complement is polarising as good as inspired by a apartheid system.

The products of a Malaysian tutorial complement have for multiform batches passed through a conveyor belt. The emanate of race family has turn some-more as good as some-more exacerbated, partly as a consequence of a incapacity of a preparation policy makers to pattern pacific tutorial settings as good as mild guidance environments to allow respect as good as high regard for any other's enlightenment to flourish.

Public discourse is becoming some-more tormented with calls by this or which racist-fascist groups in de! blockade of a broke as good as implicitly as good as nationally bankrupting beliefs of Ketuanan Melayu or 'pseudo-Malay idiotic pride' as you would translate it.

Has there been any effort by a Education Ministry to pattern as good as implement a curriculum upon multicultural education? Has there been an seductiveness in it during all, given a inlet of Malaysia's community politics which has developed in to a state of ethno-psychopathology bordering upon irrationality, fervour as good as massive corruption?

As an teacher concerned in a training of informative perspectives, philosophy, as good as education, I'd similar to to see young kids in Malaysian schools move their enlightenment with honour in to a classroom, to be shared with others in a deeply engaging creative! guidanc e context.

This is so which you move in what a philosopher Charles Taylor would call a "ethics of authenticity" - of a ethical traditions of enlightenment - in to a guidance process as good as not have these young curious informative minds develop in to turn 'knockers or boosters' of this or which code of ultra-ethnocentrism.

Let us see how a Education Ministry will resolve this Dong Zong emanate once as good as for all, before an additional regime takes this important task some-more seriously.

DR AZLY RAHMAN, who was innate in Singapore as good as grew up in Johor Baru, holds a Columbia University (New York) doctorate in International Education Development as good as Master's degrees in a fields of Education, International Affairs, Peace Studies as good as Communication. He has taught some-more than 40 courses in 6 different departments as good as has written some-more than 300 analyses upon Malaysia. His training knowledge spans Malaysia as good as a United States, over a wide operation of subjects from facile to graduate education. He now resides in a United States.

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