A New Sight of Chinese Education in Malaysia -- Non-Chinese in Chinese Primary Schools

Wong Kong-Chin

kongchinwong@yahoo.com.tw

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In Malaysia, Chinese primary school system is a sub-system within compulsory education

systems. The early stage, many discourses indicated that the Chinese education would hit by the
crises and difficulties under the governments modular education policies. However, the Chinese
primary schools fully demonstrated strong adaptability to date. Nowadays, it is unable to ignore
that there are more non-Chinese enrolled in Chinese schools, they study Chinese with Chinese
native speakers. This article would like to present two main changes, the ethnic structures, and
the campus cultures from the 90s till now. The research carries on the analysis by interview
UCSTAM, principals, and historical documents. First, it will discuss the similarities and
differences they face in the different regions in Malaysia. Here, it will take SJK (C) CHUNG
HWA, KOTA KINABALU, SABAH as an example, this is the largest Chinese primary schools in
east Malaysia, and owned 34% non-Chinese now. The following part aims at non-Chinese
enrolled in Chinese schools, and discusses how the schools face and fix the inter-ethnic education
and thus develop a different type of campus culture. These days, while the Chinese backflow and
the non-Chinese join in Chinese school, the Chinese primary schools have now blossomed into an
important field of cultural exchange under the base of Chinese culture.

Keywords: Chinese Primary Schools/Malaysian Chinese education/acculturation/nonChinese


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