Education and dissent

Readers looking to continue chewing over the issue of Burmese politics and foreign “intervention” may find some satisfaction in this article from The Christian Science Monitor. It is part of a series they have been running over the past week that highlights conditions one year after the September 2007 uprising.

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Stephen

23 September 2008 at 9:12 pm

Now that the list of papers to be presented at next month’s Burma studies conference is out, there looks to be one along the lines of the The Christian Science Monitor article entitled “At the Intersection of Education & Politics: How Teachers Negotiate Civic Education in Burma” by Brooke Treadwell with the following abstract:

This paper explores how teachers’ political and educational contexts have affected their practice of civic education between 1988 and the present. Government sanctioned civic education-related curricular content is discussed followed by an analysis of how teachers determine what civic education material to deliver to their students and how to deliver it. Based on this analysis two key questions will be considered (1) what degree of agency do teachers have to encourage or discourage their students to dissent against the government? (2) to what extent have teacher-student interactions determined students’ choice to engage or not engage in political activism against the Burmese government?

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Education and dissent

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