CERC Seminar: Shadow Education in Myanmar Private. Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications

September 12, 2018

Dear CERC members,

You’re cordially invited to the next CERC seminar co-hosted with the Faculty of Education on coming Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 12:45 – 14:00 in Room 204 of Runme Shaw Building.

Shadow Education in Myanmar: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications

by Mark Bray, Nutsa Kobakhidze and Ora Kwo

This seminar will present the findings of a CERC research project conducted in Myanmar under the auspices of UNESCO and with support from the Yangon University of Education (YUOE). A mixed-methods study collected data from students in Grades 9 and 11 and from teachers, parents and other stakeholders. Some features of shadow education resemble those in other places, but some reflect the regulations and socio-political culture of Myanmar.

Later this month the authors will discuss the findings with policy-makers in Myanmar’s Ministry of Education. They will value suggestions during this CERC seminar on the ways to highlight the core issues most effectively.

Date: Tuesday, 18 September 2018.

Time: 12:45 – 14:00.

Venue: Room 204, Runme Shaw Building.

All are welcome!

Seminar

The Making of Indigeneity: Interrogating Uses and Abuses of the Concept of ‘Indigenous’

August 21, 2018

By Dr Licho (Licho) Lopez Lopez

Chair: Yulia Nesterova

In The Making of Indigeneity, Lopez interrogates how what is “indigenous,” as a category of diversity, emerged, has been made, remade, and is taken up to fund discourses of multiculturalism and intercultualism. Through historical and ethnographic classroom research Lopez devices eventalizing as a methodological approximation to educational research at the limits of “the educational” to interrogate how liberal and progressive propositions for educating the “Indian” generate particular ways of organizing difference ostensibly meant to serve historically marginalized indigenous peoples. Asking questions of the historical and scientific involvement of anthropology, sociology, law, photography, and education in the making of indigenous as a kind of people, Lopez accounts for the aspirations, activities, and tactics that perpetuate violence on indigenous lives limiting their futurity as un-fixed being.

Ligia (Licho) Lopez Lopez is a McKenzie Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her research interests are interrogating diversity, visual studies of difference, youth popular visual cultures, and Black and Brown affect as curricular trans-formation. Licho is the author of The Making of Indigeneity, Curriculum History and the Limits of Diversity (Routledge, 2017). Her work has appeared in Knowledge Cultures (Australia), PROFESSORADO (Spain), Journal of Curriculum and Theorizing (USA), and The British Journal of Sociology (UK).

Date: Thursday August 23, 2018
Time: 12:00 – 13:15
Venue: Room 203, Runme Shaw Building

ALL ARE WELCOME!