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Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of perspective transformation in the aftermath of the economic and political turmoil of the late 1990s in Malaysia. The study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What triggered the perspective transformation among the selected indi...

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Main Author: Kamis, Mazalan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2002
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Political science - Malaysia.
Transformative learning - Malaysia.
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9331/1/FPP_2002_23.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.93312024-02-20T01:53:52Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9331/ Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia Kamis, Mazalan The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of perspective transformation in the aftermath of the economic and political turmoil of the late 1990s in Malaysia. The study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What triggered the perspective transformation among the selected individuals, (2) How did the process of perspective transformation occur among the selected individuals, (3) What facilitated the process of perspective transformation as experienced by the selected individuals. The researcher conducted a case study on Malaysia's tenth General Election (GE) in 1999. Ten participants were interviewed in this study. They consist of educated Malays with an average age of forty years old, married with an average of four children, and living and/or working in the Klang Valley. The participants were selected using the snowballing sampling technique. They were chosen based on the following criteria: (1) changing political party membership, (2) voting against one's own party, (3) applying to register as a voter, which was never done before, despite eligibility, and (4) being actively involved in election campaigns. The primary data collection technique used in this qualitative case study was the interviews. A question guide was developed and refined for use in the interviews. The interviews were taped and conducted in a mixture of languages, Bahasa Melayu and English, as such mixture is common among the urban educated Malays .The taped interviews were transcribed verbatim. 2002-04 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9331/1/FPP_2002_23.pdf Kamis, Mazalan (2002) Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia. Doctoral thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Political science - Malaysia. Transformative learning - Malaysia. English
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topic Political science - Malaysia.
Transformative learning - Malaysia.
spellingShingle Political science - Malaysia.
Transformative learning - Malaysia.
Kamis, Mazalan
Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
description The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of perspective transformation in the aftermath of the economic and political turmoil of the late 1990s in Malaysia. The study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What triggered the perspective transformation among the selected individuals, (2) How did the process of perspective transformation occur among the selected individuals, (3) What facilitated the process of perspective transformation as experienced by the selected individuals. The researcher conducted a case study on Malaysia's tenth General Election (GE) in 1999. Ten participants were interviewed in this study. They consist of educated Malays with an average age of forty years old, married with an average of four children, and living and/or working in the Klang Valley. The participants were selected using the snowballing sampling technique. They were chosen based on the following criteria: (1) changing political party membership, (2) voting against one's own party, (3) applying to register as a voter, which was never done before, despite eligibility, and (4) being actively involved in election campaigns. The primary data collection technique used in this qualitative case study was the interviews. A question guide was developed and refined for use in the interviews. The interviews were taped and conducted in a mixture of languages, Bahasa Melayu and English, as such mixture is common among the urban educated Malays .The taped interviews were transcribed verbatim.
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title Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
title_short Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
title_full Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
title_fullStr Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
title_sort rising political conciousness: transformative learning among educated urban malays in malaysia
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