Education and Policy Challenges of a Situation in Flux

Abstract

This chapter explores, in some depth, the key drivers and processes behind Myanmar’s recent reforms to the education sector. It gives careful scrutiny to the peacebuilding dimensions of these reforms—both in terms of their possibility to recognise and redress past grievances, and to locate education as a key part of the transformative remedy. A key concern raised in this chapter, is the relative absence or recognition of the country’s enduring conflict, and the consequences it has had and continues to play in the education sector. This, the chapter suggests, severely limits the possibilities for such reforms to effectively address concerns raised by a multitude of stakeholders on the education system’s complicity and role in creating or addressing the underlying conditions of conflict.