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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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Main Author: Aihara, Akihito
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2009
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P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
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spelling my.usm.eprints.40268 http://eprints.usm.my/40268/ Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class Aihara, Akihito P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) 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"? Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40268/1/Akihito_Aihara_EducationReforms.pdf Aihara, Akihito (2009) Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 5 (1). pp. 1-33. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Akihito_Aihara_EducationReforms.pdf
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Aihara, Akihito
Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
description 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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author Aihara, Akihito
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title Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
title_short Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
title_full Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
title_fullStr Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
title_full_unstemmed Paradoxes Of Higher Education Reforms: Implications On The Malaysian Middle Class
title_sort paradoxes of higher education reforms: implications on the malaysian middle class
publisher Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
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url http://eprints.usm.my/40268/1/Akihito_Aihara_EducationReforms.pdf
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