Myanmar's Education and National Identity

DOI

10.2991/isbcd-16.2016.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Myanmar, education, national identity

Abstract

For a nation state, education has been seen as a fundamental and effective approach to maintain a sense of national identity for a long time. For most nation states, multi-ethnicity is recognized as the main character; due to this, many scholars begin to show their concern about how to promote the civic consciousness and national identity through education. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic state, which has long been abused by ethnic issues. Therefore, education may play an important role in conciliating ethnic conflicts and strengthening the national cohesion and finally, maintaining the governmental legitimacy. This article will briefly review Myanmar's educational history in three historical periods and discuss the influences on national identity among the people of Myanmar. Furthermore, this article will analyze the Myanmar's recent education reform and accordingly, some suggestions are given.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ya Zuo
AU  - Juwei Yang
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Myanmar's Education and National Identity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Symposium on Business Cooperation and Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 132
EP  - 135
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isbcd-16.2016.27
DO  - 10.2991/isbcd-16.2016.27
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