Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
What is the middle class? This conceptual conundrum remains unsolved, yet higher education in Malaysia is deemed as one of the constituents. With special reference to higher education reforms in the 1990s, this paper agrees with the literature arguing that the Malaysian middle class is heterogene...
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/40268/1/Akihito_Aihara_EducationReforms.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/40268/ http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Akihito_Aihara_EducationReforms.pdf |
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| Summary: | What is the middle class? This conceptual conundrum remains unsolved, yet
higher education in Malaysia is deemed as one of the constituents. With special
reference to higher education reforms in the 1990s, this paper agrees with the
literature arguing that the Malaysian middle class is heterogeneous. Empirical
evidence from Population and Housing Census Malaysia 2000 indicates the
diversities and complexities within higher education that flow over to the terrain
of the Malaysian middle class. Meanwhile, this paper leaves open an old but
fundamental question: what is the notion of a class underlying the Malaysian
middle class studies that accept its heterogeneity but use the term, "the middle
class" or "the middle classes"? |
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