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Hapini Awang; Nur Suhaili Mansor; Syazatul Natrah; Farzana Anis; Pitri Yeni Azwar; Nurul Huda; Ramlan Mustapha – Online Submission, 2023
In addition to the significance of education for improving economic growth and skill development, higher education is also crucial for the indigenous community, better known as Orang Asli in Malaysia. Unfortunately, many Orang Asli ethnic minorities living in remote areas or highlands of Peninsular Malaysia face high dropout rates across all…
Descriptors: High School Students, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
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Renganathan, Sumathi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article explores the literacy practices of the indigenous Semai Orang Asli community in Malaysia. Literacy for the Orang Asli often centres on formal education and schooling and is hardly explored from a social and cultural perspective. In fact, researchers have paid barely any attention to Orang Asli oral and literate traditions nor their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers comprises proceedings from the 5th English in South East Asia Conference, held in December 2000 at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. The 19 papers include the following: (1) "Global English and Local Language Policies" (Robert Phillipson); (2) "Hong Kong Parents' Preference for English-Medium…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education