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Chia, Yeow Tong – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
The term "Asian values" became popular in the political discourse in the 1980s and 1990s. The most vocal proponents of Asian values are Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir and their deputies and government officials, as well as post-Tiananmen Chinese leaders. Most notable of all these three strands of the Asian values debate…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Ethical Instruction
Banks, Ellen C. – 1993
In Malaysia, the national moral education curriculums are designed to develop the values that Malaysians of diverse cultures share or that the government wishes to develop as shared values to bring about religious and ethnic harmony. Moral education for Muslims is incorporated into in-school religious education, while a separate, essentially…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum, Elementary Education, Ethical Instruction