Teaching Ethnic Languages, Cultures and Histories in Government Schools Today: Great Opportunities, Giant Pitfalls? (Part I)

Nicolas Salem-Gervais (1, 2)

1 Inalco - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
2 CASE - Centre Asie du Sud-Est

This is part one of a three-part post – which forms a much shorter and more opinion-based version of an upcoming academic work (Salem-Gervais 2019) – aimed at offering a new perspective, and stimulating constructive debates, on several aspects of the representation of ethnic identities in Myanmar’s national education system, especially questions of languages.

Domaines: Education

Nicolas Salem-Gervais. Teaching Ethnic Languages, Cultures and Histories in Government Schools Today: Great Opportunities, Giant Pitfalls? (Part I): Teaching ethnic languages in government schools: Rationale, Past, Present and Prospects. 2018. ⟨halshs-02512849⟩