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Teaching Political Science in Southeast Asia Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

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Teaching Political Science in Southeast Asia can be an easy academic exercise. Structure the courses after those of a department in an established university in Europe or America, use the textbooks produced by the major publishing companies, list the references carefully worked out by their counterparts in some western universities, organize the facts and points in the texts, present them in class, give one or two examinations to find out how much the students know, mark them strictly or leniently, hand in the grades to the Registrar's office and the academic year is over. With few exceptions, everything seems to be ready-made for the teacher and the student.

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1974

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References

1 For dates of establishment of Southeast Asia Institutions of Higher Learning, see Handbook, published by ASAIHL, 1970–1971.

2 This term is inspired by the reference, Westernized Oriental Gentlemen, used by Dr. Goh Keng Swee, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Singapore.

3 Confucius Analects, Book IV, chapter 4.

4 Ibid.

5 New Nation 24.3.73.

6 Poems of Mao Tse-tung, Translated and Annotated by Wong Man, Eastern Horizon Press, Hong Kong, 1966, pp. 40–42.

7 Essay on Wang Chih, in Hsun Tze.