萧遥天与五八年“华文”课本诞生
Seow Yeoh Thian and the Emergence of Chinese Textbook Version 1958

方美富 TH’NG Bee Fu
马来西亚拉曼大学中华研究院助理教授（Institute of Chinese Studies, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia）。
E-mail: [email protected]

马来西亚华人研究学刊，第21期，2018年，页43-72
Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, Volume 21, 2018: 43-72

摘要

一九五八年，独立时代教科书诞生，是华教史关键的一年。教科书是教育之本，课程理念与教学活动无不倚靠教科书的帮助，就教师言可省却精力，以学生言，则利于学习自修考核。学校该教甚么？怎么教？谁的知识？这些问题并非起立行礼问安那么理所当然，若处理不当，枝词太繁，必以笼统贫薄为代价，牺牲的往往不是一代人，且最要命是授受者全无知觉。教科书攸关教育普及与常识的培育。如此庞大卷帙，历来华教史并不深入讨论教科书意义，本文的主角——五八年制课本，自不例外，因而充满玄机与悬念，那样特殊时刻，亦注定是不可多得的范例。实则，五八年教科书由南来文人萧遥天制作，一切在教条规范前，政府对于思想文化的控制相对放松，不规则不明确，加上制作者知识与能力的突出表现，值得再三体味其中的象征意义。

关键词：萧遥天、华文教育、教科书、中华民国在南洋

Abstract

1958 was the crucial year for Chinese education history. Chinese textbooks were born on independent day. Textbooks play an important role in education since they are giving guidelines for teaching’s concepts and activities. For teachers, they can save a lot of time in preparing the lessons; for students, textbooks are good for their reference and revision. What to teach, how to teach and who is going to edit textbooks is not a simple question. Textbooks play an important role in nurturing knowledge. If we are unable to provide a good version of textbooks, our entire generation is going to sacrifice, not only for students but also teachers. However, we never take serious discussion about the dominant role playing by textbooks; especially on Chinese textbooks Version 1958. Actually, Chinese textbooks Version 1958 was editing by Seow Yeoh Thian, who was coming from China. He had good knowledge and ability in editing textbooks. Since Chinese textbooks Version 1958 are born in crucial year and has a prominent editor, the discussion on this topic is significant in the history of Chinese education.

Keywords: Seow Yeoh Thian, Chinese Education, Textbooks, Chunghwa Minkuo in Nanyang

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