Myanmar’s Education Reforms

This book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serve...

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description This book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serves as a case study on how the reform programme has evolved. Drawing on over 15 years of field research carried out across Myanmar, the book offers a cohesive inquiry into government and non-government education sectors, the reform process, and how the transition has played out across schools, universities and wider society. It casts scrutiny on changes in basic education, the alternative monastic education, higher education and teacher education, and engages with issues of ethnic education and the debate on the role of language and the local curriculum as part of the peace process. In so doing, it gives voice to those most affected by the changing landscape of Myanmar’s education and wider reform process: the students and parents of all ethnic backgrounds, teachers, teacher trainees and university staff that are rarely heard. Marie Lall argues that, despite a commitment to greater equality and equity expressed in the Ministry of Education’s policy documents, Myanmar has missed a historic opportunity to make use of education reform to engage with deep-seated social injustices. Inequalities persist in the long-term outcomes for poorer sections of society and between the majority Bamars and ethnic nationality communities. This is the portrait of a country constrained by internal tensions and competing international priorities that serve to divert the professed course towards social justice.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-747972024-03-29T09:17:13Z Myanmar’s Education Reforms Lall, Marie Myanmar social justice education reform political reform Mother Tongue Based Multi Lingual Education ethnic nationality communities Myanmar Egress private education curriculum Thein Sein Comprehensive Education Sector Review Daw Aung San Suu Kyi National Network for Education Reform National League Democracy NLD monastic education Burmese language bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government This book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serves as a case study on how the reform programme has evolved. Drawing on over 15 years of field research carried out across Myanmar, the book offers a cohesive inquiry into government and non-government education sectors, the reform process, and how the transition has played out across schools, universities and wider society. It casts scrutiny on changes in basic education, the alternative monastic education, higher education and teacher education, and engages with issues of ethnic education and the debate on the role of language and the local curriculum as part of the peace process. In so doing, it gives voice to those most affected by the changing landscape of Myanmar’s education and wider reform process: the students and parents of all ethnic backgrounds, teachers, teacher trainees and university staff that are rarely heard. Marie Lall argues that, despite a commitment to greater equality and equity expressed in the Ministry of Education’s policy documents, Myanmar has missed a historic opportunity to make use of education reform to engage with deep-seated social injustices. Inequalities persist in the long-term outcomes for poorer sections of society and between the majority Bamars and ethnic nationality communities. This is the portrait of a country constrained by internal tensions and competing international priorities that serve to divert the professed course towards social justice. 2021-12-09T04:03:32Z 2021-12-09T04:03:32Z 2021-12-08T12:16:35Z 2021 book ONIX_20211208_9781787353695_67 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51835 9781787353695 9781787350724 9781787355156 9781782772774 9781787353879 9781787354043 9781787354104 9781787354166 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74797 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51835/1/9781787353695.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787353695 10.14324/111.9781787353695 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781787353695 9781787350724 9781787355156 9781782772774 9781787353879 9781787354043 9781787354104 9781787354166 UCL Press London open access
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social justice
education reform
political reform
Mother Tongue Based Multi Lingual Education
ethnic nationality communities
Myanmar Egress
private education
curriculum
Thein Sein
Comprehensive Education Sector Review
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
National Network for Education Reform
National League Democracy
NLD
monastic education
Burmese language
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
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Myanmar’s Education Reforms
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social justice
education reform
political reform
Mother Tongue Based Multi Lingual Education
ethnic nationality communities
Myanmar Egress
private education
curriculum
Thein Sein
Comprehensive Education Sector Review
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
National Network for Education Reform
National League Democracy
NLD
monastic education
Burmese language
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
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social justice
education reform
political reform
Mother Tongue Based Multi Lingual Education
ethnic nationality communities
Myanmar Egress
private education
curriculum
Thein Sein
Comprehensive Education Sector Review
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
National Network for Education Reform
National League Democracy
NLD
monastic education
Burmese language
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies & policy
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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