Rising Political Conciousness: Transformative Learning Among Educated Urban Malays in Malaysia
The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of perspective transformation in the aftermath of the economic and political turmoil of the late 1990s in Malaysia. The study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What triggered the perspective transformation among the selected indi...
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9331/1/FPP_2002_23.pdf |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of perspective transformation
in the aftermath of the economic and political turmoil of the late 1990s in
Malaysia. The study is guided by the following research questions: (1) What
triggered the perspective transformation among the selected individuals, (2)
How did the process of perspective transformation occur among the selected
individuals, (3) What facilitated the process of perspective transformation as
experienced by the selected individuals.
The researcher conducted a case study on Malaysia's tenth General Election
(GE) in 1999. Ten participants were interviewed in this study. They consist of
educated Malays with an average age of forty years old, married with an
average of four children, and living and/or working in the Klang Valley. The
participants were selected using the snowballing sampling technique. They were chosen based on the following criteria: (1) changing political party
membership, (2) voting against one's own party, (3) applying to register as a
voter, which was never done before, despite eligibility, and (4) being actively
involved in election campaigns.
The primary data collection technique used in this qualitative case study was
the interviews. A question guide was developed and refined for use in the
interviews. The interviews were taped and conducted in a mixture of
languages, Bahasa Melayu and English, as such mixture is common among
the urban educated Malays .The taped interviews were transcribed verbatim. |
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