Education as a political tool in Asia

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Foreword / Michael Apple -- Introduction / Marie Lall -- 1. Education, identity and the politics of modern state formation in Asia: a comparative and historical perspective / Edward Vickers -- 2. The Inescapability of Politics? Nationalism, democratization and social order in Japanese education / Peter Cave -- 3. The Opportunity of China? Education, patriotic values and the Chinese state / Edward Vickers -- 4. Education, Politics and the State in Hong Kong / Paul Morris -- 5. "Creating good citizens, or a competitive workforce, or just plain political socialisation": tensions in the aims of education in Singapore / Christine Han -- 6. "Reverse! Now play fast forward": Education and the Politics of Change in Malaysia / Elwyn Thomas -- 7. Doi moi, Education and Identity Formation in Contemporary Vietnam / Matthieu Salomon and Vu Doan Ket -- 8. Globalization and the Fundamentalisation of Curricula: lessons from India / Marie Lall -- 9. Education dilemmas in Pakistan: the current curriculum reform Marie Lall -- 10. Non Piu Andrai: Bullets, Burqas, Books: Education Policy and its Discontents in Communist and Taleban Afghanistan / Patrick Belton.