Education in and about Burma      

Burma related research papers and projects

Note:  These papers are available online and full text.  For students looking for term papers, please remember that if you can find this material online, so can your instructor. 

See: Plagiarism and Citing Internet Sources  

• New   The Hunting of the SLORC: Politico-military strategies, by David Arnott.  Updated in 1999.
  
• New   A Drug Induced High: The Price of Burma's Development, Jean Paul Rollert, Harvard Political Review
  
• Gustaaf Houtman, Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics, Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy.   Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series No. 33. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999, 400 pp.  Free download, PDF format.  Highly recommended.

• Education in Burma, 1945-1999.   A paper by Thein Lwin.

• Assistance, protection and policy in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma Border: An Overview, a paper by Edith Bowles, 1997. Refugee Studies Programme, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University

• Universal Basic Education: Education and Human Rights in Burma, a paper by Thein Lwin (January 1997)

• Ten Weeks at the World Bank V, Introduction to the Burma (Myanmar) Project.  This online tutorial is intended to simulate the development of a World Bank project using rice in Burma as an example.  Informative background material but devoid of recent economic and political analysis.