Myanmar's Education Reforms : A pathway to social justice?

This book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar's peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall's analysis of education policy and prac...

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Main Author: Lall, Marie (auth)
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Published: London UCL Press 2021
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