Marie Lall

Myanmar's Education Reforms (eBook, ePUB)

A pathway to social justice?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Praise for Myanmar's Education Reforms
'A cohesive inquiry into multiple reform processes of government and non-government education sectors and how this education reform played out across schools and universities around Myanmar.'
Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UCL Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787354104
• Artikelnr.: 60395536

Autorenporträt

Marie Lall is Professor of Education and South Asian Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, and former UCL Pro Vice Provost for South Asia. Her research focuses on the politics of South Asia including education in India, Pakistan and Myanmar with regard to gender, ethnicity, conflict, social exclusion, the formation of national identity, and the linkage between national identity, citizenship and education. She has over 25 years of field experience and has been instrumental in providing thought leadership to development agencies, policy makers and governments in the region and internationally.