Ian Ward, Norma Miraflor, & David Webb
Singapore: Media Masters, 2009
ISBN: 9789834430023
This volume portrays a broad picture of Lasallian history as it have evolved over the past 157 years within the eight major institutions that have been run by the Brothers in the neighbouring territories of Malaysia and Singapore. It brings into contemporary focus a pattern of educational endeavour that has provided untold benefits for both nations through all those years.
The book seeks to examine and record, both dispassionately and objectively, an extremely complex journey. The reality is that the movement launched locally with such zeal and fervour in 1852 by the pioneering Brothers finds itself at a critical crossroad. The world has vastly changed, particularly over the past 50 years. As of June 2009, not a single Lasallian school in either Peninsular Malaysia or Singapore has a la Salle Brother as principal. Meanwhile, the overall number of active teaching Brother across both territories has dwindled to just a handful.
Is there a way forward for a highly distinctive and immensely valuable tradition in local education - one widely recognised as “the Lasallian ethos?” This becomes the underlying theme of the book’s final chapters.
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