EDITORIAL: SG’s – The Sunday Times says: Getting students to know Asean better

The Sunday Times says

Getting students to know Asean better

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It is instructive that content on Asean will become a bigger part of humanities subjects in secondary schools and junior colleges in the next three years. The region will be featured more explicitly and prominently in social studies, history, geography and economics subjects. The changes will not only help them understand Asean better as a region, but also encourage them to identify important points of similarity between Asean as a whole and

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Singapore as a nation by how the two collectively respond to larger forces and events.

This is why history is also important, particularly the influence of the Cold War in inaugurating Asean in 1967. The end of that war led to the enlargement of Asean to include all 10 states in South-east Asia, some of which had been political and strategic adversaries of the organisation’s founding members. This dramatic development transformed the direction of one of the world’s most vigorous regional organisations, benefiting young people across South-east Asia. Students here need to understand the origins of the regional peace that is often taken for grante

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