CEID book launch of Professor Marie Lall's: Myanmar's Education Reforms - a pathway to social justice? (UCL Press) The webinar featured Dr Jérémie Sanchez (Fribourg), Dr Khaing Phyu (FCDO, Yangon) and Prof Marie Lall (UCL). The panel commented on the Myanmar 2020 elections as well as on the reforms. The book reviews the state of education in Myanmar over the past decade and a half as the country is undergoing profound albeit incomplete transformation. Set within the context of Myanmar’s peace process and the wider reforms since 2012, Marie Lall’s analysis of education policy and practice serves as a case study on how the reform programme has evolved. Drawing on over 15 years of field research carried out across Myanmar, the book offers a cohesive inquiry into how the transition has played out across schools, universities and wider society. In so doing, it gives voice to those most affected by the changing landscape of Myanmar’s education and wider reform process.

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Speaker: Prof Tristan McCowan Panel: Dr Emilie Souyri (Université Côte d'Azur); Alex Wright (Association of Commonwealth Universities); Dr Laila Kadiwal (UCL) and Dr Stuart Tannock (UCL) Chair: Prof Elaine Unterhalter (UCL) Prof Tristan McCowan launches his book ‘Higher education for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), followed by responses from the panel. The book analyses the role of the university in working towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Higher education is seen to have a crucial role in this new agenda. Yet how can the university fulfil these weighty expectations, and are the dominant trends in higher education supporting or undermining this vision? Drawing on the idea of the ‘developmental university’, McCowan examines case studies from around the world to analyse how this model can be revived, countering recent trends of marketisation, status competition and unbundling. It also considers alternatives to the developmental model.

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Global Challenges to Social Justice and the Future of Intercultural Education In honour of the memory of Professor Jagdish Gundara (1938–2016) First Director of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL IOE Exploring some of the immediate and recurring challenges to the achievement of social justice in a global context and their ramifications for intercultural education. Specifically, issues concerned with truth, equity, social division and diversity will be highlighted as a backdrop to a discussion of signposts for positive intercultural engagement at all levels of education. Recent political events and continuing violence and warfare, together with migration and refugee ‘crises’, contribute to an ongoing climate of fear and reaction there is also an impetus to engage with more imaginative perspectives in the pursuit of increased global justice. Aiming at a cross-disciplinary approach with contributions from those involved with pedagogy, adult learning and teacher educat

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