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Educational Dialogues in Southeast Asian Children Literature: Reading the Vietnamese Novel Ticket to Childhood (Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, 2008) and the Indonesian Novel The Rainbow Troops: A Novel (Andrea Hirata, 2005) in Comparison

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2024, 16(2), pp.39-65
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2024.16.2.39
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : February 17, 2024
  • Accepted : July 1, 2024
  • Published : July 31, 2024

Trịnh Đặng Nguyên Hương 1 Chi P. Pham 2

1Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
2The Institute of Literature in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

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ABSTRACT

Education is widely considered an essential tool for national development, particularly in Southeast Asia, in which advancing education ideally means advancing social cohesion, and security, and economic growth. This paper juxtaposes The Rainbow Troops: A Novel (2005, hereafter The Rainbow Troops) by Indonesian writer Andrea Hirata and Cho tôi xin một vé đi tuổi thơ (Ticket to Childhood, 2008) by Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, understanding their potentially generated dialogue about idealized education. Reading character constructions and narrative flows against educational policies and realities of Vietnam and Indonesia in particular and Southeast Asia at large reveals criticism about the true goals of education programs pertaining to children. Specifically, they provoke in readers questions about the role of education as a tool for national development appropriate to each political and economic context and the respect for the psychological, intellectual, and physical development of children.

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