Comments on: Education and dissent http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/09/22/education-and-dissent/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:26 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stephen http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/09/22/education-and-dissent/comment-page-1/#comment-560775 Stephen Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:12:03 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/?p=3061#comment-560775 Now that the <a href="http://www.grad.niu.edu/burma/AbstractInformation.html" rel="nofollow">list</a> of papers to be presented at next month's Burma studies conference is out, there looks to be one along the lines of the <em>The Christian Science Monitor</em> article entitled "At the Intersection of Education & Politics: How Teachers Negotiate Civic Education in Burma" by Brooke Treadwell with the following abstract: <blockquote>This paper explores how teachers' political and educational contexts have affected their practice of civic education between 1988 and the present. Government sanctioned civic education-related curricular content is discussed followed by an analysis of how teachers determine what civic education material to deliver to their students and how to deliver it. Based on this analysis two key questions will be considered (1) what degree of agency do teachers have to encourage or discourage their students to dissent against the government? (2) to what extent have teacher-student interactions determined students' choice to engage or not engage in political activism against the Burmese government?</blockquote> Now that the list of papers to be presented at next month’s Burma studies conference is out, there looks to be one along the lines of the The Christian Science Monitor article entitled “At the Intersection of Education & Politics: How Teachers Negotiate Civic Education in Burma” by Brooke Treadwell with the following abstract:

This paper explores how teachers’ political and educational contexts have affected their practice of civic education between 1988 and the present. Government sanctioned civic education-related curricular content is discussed followed by an analysis of how teachers determine what civic education material to deliver to their students and how to deliver it. Based on this analysis two key questions will be considered (1) what degree of agency do teachers have to encourage or discourage their students to dissent against the government? (2) to what extent have teacher-student interactions determined students’ choice to engage or not engage in political activism against the Burmese government?

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