Myanmar’s Education Reforms
A pathway to social justice?
Marie Lall
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
Marie Lall is Professor of Education and South Asian Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The state of education, pre-reform
2. Education reform and effects on basic education
3. The alternative: Monastic education
4. Higher education: Towards international standards in a neoliberal world
5. Teacher education and training: Is changing practice possible?
6. Ethnic education: Language and local curriculum issues
7. Ethnic education: Recognising alternative systems run by ethnic armed organisations
Conclusion: Whither social justice in Myanmar?
References
Index
Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
322 Pages
1 line drawing, 19 colour illustrations, and 5 B&W tables
Copyright: © 2021
ISBN: 9781787353879
Publication: November 02, 2020
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