Myanmar’s Education Reforms : A pathway to social justice? /

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 prac...

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Main Author: Lall, M. C. (Marie-Carine) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The state of education, pre-reform
  • Education reform and effects on basic education
  • The alternative : monastic education
  • Higher education : towards international standards in a neo-liberal world
  • Teacher education and training : is changing practice possible?
  • Ethnic education : language and local curriculum issues
  • Ethnic education : recognising alternative systems run by ethnic armed organisations
  • Conclusion : whither social justice in Myanmar?