8 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Jung Benatar, and Chan* outline the evolving language-in-education landscape following the coup, within and beyond military-controlled territory in Part 2 of a […]
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnicity, federalism, language policy
May 9, 2023
8 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Jung Benatar, and Chan* outline the evolving language-in-education landscape following the coup, within and beyond military-controlled territory in Part 1 of a […]
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnicity, federalism, language policy
May 8, 2023
9 Minutes To ReadEwan Cameron argues that we need to see ethnic languages as resources rather than problems to be overcome.
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Karen, Mon, Sgaw Karen
April 28, 2020
10 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud present two case studies and conclude this three-part post.
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Kachin, pedagogy, shan
September 25, 2019
19 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the prospects of ethnic minority languages standardization..
Tags: Burmese, Chin State, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, Kachin, Kayan, Lisu, Rawang, textbooks
September 24, 2019
20 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais and Mael Raynaud discuss the teaching of ethnic minority languages in government schools.
Tags: culture, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, policy, teaching, textbooks
September 23, 2019
11 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new resource for scholarship on Myanmar.
Tags: agriculture, Book Review, environment, ethnic languages, farmers, gender, governance, hate speech, political economy, technology
March 7, 2019
5 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling reflects on Facebook in Myanmar.
Tags: ethnic languages, Facebook, hate speech, human rights, social media
January 24, 2019
8 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling presents an argument for how Facebook could potentially (and inadvertently) advance Burmanisation in Myanmar.
Tags: burmanisation, ethnic languages, Facebook, social media
January 23, 2019
6 Minutes To ReadThomas Dowling assesses Facebook’s mitigation strategies before critically engaging with the Company’s intentions in Myanmar.
Tags: burmanisation, ethnic languages, Facebook, social media
January 22, 2019
9 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, on the prospects of teaching ethnic histories when decentralizing education.
Tags: curriculum, ethnic histories, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, historiography, history, Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education, nation-building, states and regions
October 4, 2018
14 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, on the challenges to ambitious language-in-education policies in Myanmar.
Tags: curriculum, ethnic histories, ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, historiography, language policy, Mon, Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education, nation-building, shan
October 2, 2018
10 Minutes To ReadNicolas Salem-Gervais, on the teaching of ethnic languages in government schools, past and present.
Tags: curriculum, ethnic histories, ethnic languages, historiography, language policy, Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education, nation-building
October 1, 2018
6 Minutes To ReadJoanna Dolińska looks at language diversity and language policy.
Tags: ethnic languages, ethnic minorities, language, policy
July 27, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadEMReF researchers discuss education reform, the local parliaments, federalism and peace. Editor’s note This article has been updated to include additional references. If the issues underlying the current political […]
Tags: decentralization, ethnic languages, federalism, governance, parliament
June 14, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadPhyu Phyu Thin Zaw discusses what’s missing in the education reform process.
Tags: curriculum, educational reform, ethnic languages, ethnicity
May 19, 2017