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Ethnic Content Integration and Local Curriculum in Myanmar
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In: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies ; 14 ; 2 ; 155-172 ; Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education (2022)
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Ethnic Content Integration and Local Curriculum in Myanmar ...
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Abstract:
Myanmar is home to over 54.8 million people, consisting of over 100 ethnolinguistic groups with distinct linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds. Since Myanmar gained independence from Great Britain, education has been used as the main political tool for Bamar national assimilation, neglecting this rich ethnic and cultural diversity. Myanmar opted for the assimilationist approach in which non-dominant ethnolinguistic nationalities are vanquished through the use of educational instruction, materials, and teachers’ education, all of which are ‘Bamarcentric’, centered around a single ethnolinguistic identity and language in Myanmar, Bamar. Other, non-dominant ethnolinguistic groups in Myanmar have long desired to incorporate their own languages, cultures, and histories into the educational system. In this vein, the National Education Law (NEL), which took effect in 2014, provides the integration of non-dominant ethnic languages and cultural identities into the mainstream curriculum. From this, a ... : Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021): Multicultural Lingual and Multicultural Education ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.14764/10.aseas-0060
https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/6382
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