Reforming Literature Education in Malaysia 1957 - 2020

Lim traces the complexities in construction and implementation of a school subject, namely Literature in English in Malaysia through a focused and grounded narrative where tensions regarding identity, reader response and conceptualisations about literature play out in a postcolonial context.

Jia Wei Lim is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She has a PhD in education from the University of Cambridge, UK.

1. Introducing the Malaysian education context 2. Selecting a lens to explore Literature in English as a school subject Preamble: Explorations of Phase One 'English' (pre-1957 - 1980) 3. The Higher School Certificate 'English' curriculum 4. Glimpses of HSC 'English' classroom experiences Preamble: Explorations of Phase Two 'English' (1981 - 1999) 5. The Malaysian Higher Education Certificate 'English' curriculum 6. Glimpses of Phase 2 'English' classroom experiences Preamble: Explorations of Phase Three 'Literature in English' (2000 - 2011) 7. The 'Literature in English' curriculum 8. Glimpses of 'Literature in English' classroom experiences Preamble: Explorations of Phase Four 'Literature in English' (2012 - 2020) 9. SMK Ceria 10. SMK Pendekar 11. Weaving threads together 12. Moving onwards for 'Literature in English'