Education and the politics of language: Hegemony and pragmatism in Cambodia, 1979-1989

Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Comparative Education Research Centre ("Studies in Comparative Education" No. 8). 2000.

Thomas Clayton

During the decade from 1979-1989, key elements of Cambodia's governance were controlled by the authorities in neighboring Vietnam. The type of linguistic and cultural dominance brought by this control was substantially different from that in most other parts of the world. Clayton's analysis of hegemony and pragmatism speaks to a broad audience in the fields of language policy studies and comparative education, as well as to scholars concerned specifically with Cambodia.