Formation of Malay undergraduates’ identity vis-à-vis the Malay community’s underachievement in the educational field.

• Main Author: Siti Latifah Ishar.
• Other Authors: Patrick Williams
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48333
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper studies how 14 Malay Singaporean undergraduates form their identity and develop their sense of selfhood vis-a-vis rhetoric of the “Malay problem”, particularly the issue of educational underachievement. This is especially because these 14 Malay undergraduates do not contribute to the issu...