Being and becoming ‘dropouts’: contextualizing dropout experiences of youth migrant workers in transitional Myanmar

Hong, Moon Suk

doi:10.1080/09518398.2020.1717665

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“…Much of the literature on dropping out of school concentrates on explaining the demographic and socio-economic determinants of dropouts with the view to keeping youth in school longer and avoiding the negative effects on the individual, family and society of dropping out (Hong 2020;Johansson 2019). The narratives of our participants confirm the salience of demographic and socio-economic determinants to a certain extent, although the timing, the experience and the reasons and degree of choice behind leaving education varied considerably.…”

Section: Narratives Of Leaving Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People’s Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

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Brun²

2021

Social Sciences

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This paper emerges out of a study with 293 young people (Syrians, Palestinians and nationals) living in contexts of compound crises and protracted displacement in Jordan and Lebanon. In the paper, we discuss how young people’s education trajectories can be conceptualised, operationalised and studied. We synthesise different approaches to understanding and analysing such trajectories into a framework that captures the intricate and multi-directional ways that young people navigate towards uncertain futures. The framework on multi-directional trajectories takes its starting point from an understanding of Victoria Browne’s ‘lived time’, captured through how different temporalities come together in one person’s story. After presenting our framework and the context in the first part of the paper, the second part applies the framework to analyse the ‘vital conjuncture’ of leaving education. By analysing leaving education as lived time, we create nuanced insights into how this vital conjuncture can be understood to shape young peoples’ trajectories. In conclusion, we discuss the value of understanding trajectories as lived time by illuminating how young people experience and navigate their education trajectories.

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Section: Narratives Of Leaving Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People’s Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

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Brun²

2021

Social Sciences

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“…However, the authors note that the elite institutional or organizational habitus, and its influence on groups of education elite have not yet been widely examined in many developing countries in Asia (see works of Altbach 1989). It could be due to high academic and policy attention to 'the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed' (Hong 2020). Among a few studies, Slater (2009), Koon- Hong (2014), and Hong and Kim (2019) have paid attention to higher education and higher education institutions in Asia and how the prominent national and public universities have played critical social and political roles in producing elite students in contemporary developing countries in Asia.…”

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“…Based on the analysis, the National Education Strategic Plan (NESP) report was produced (MOE, 2016). The NESP stated that higher education is fundamental to national development as it produces 'skilled human capital' for economic development, and they are needed in the government, businesses, and industries (Hong and Kim 2019;Hong 2020). More specifically, the mission of YTU is stated as fostering a generation of professionals to benefit the wider society.…”

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“…In that sense, the youth in Myanmar accounting for roughly a third of the country's population is critical for the development of their country as the first generation to experience transitional democracy, economy, and modern communications technology (Voluntary Service Overseas [VSO] & British Council 2019). Acknowledging their importance, several studies have explored the roles that the youth play in such transitions (VSO & British Council 2019;Paung Sie Facility 2017;Hong and Kim 2019;Hong 2020). These studies have examined how the youth has participated in the process and how they perceive and understand their roles and responsibilities in the socio-political and educational transition.…”

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Symbolic habitus and new aspirations of higher education elites in transitional Myanmar

Hong

Chun

2020

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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This paper examines critical aspects of the birth of the new generation of Myanmar's emerging elite groups and their roles in the society based on in-depth qualitative research conducted in two universities in Yangon. It particularly pays close attention to the critical roles of the two universities -as political, social and knowledge institutions -in the formation of the new elite groups in Myanmar. The interplay between the students' individual agency and the two elite higher education institutes implies three sets of processes: the societal context in a transitional democratic country, the institutional habitus of higher education, and the young elites' agency. Findings from observations, interviews, and field research indicate that students attending the two universities exhibit a common sense of pride in being members of academically and historically prestigious institutions. At the same time, students in each university developed distinctive understandings of their roles as elites in the transitional society of Myanmar, reflecting the disciplinary difference of each institution. More importantly, this study found that the symbolic habitus of the two universities provided the new elites with a strong desire to contribute to the nation's development, although their actual practice and outcome remains uncertain. This study thus urges careful consideration of the role of higher education, beyond merely instilling symbolic prestige, to nurture the emerging elites to thrive in the rapidly changing society.

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“…This aspect is of particular relevance in light of the highly intangible features of urban change such as that related to political, societal and cultural aspects, local identities, and everyday experiences and perceptions. The majority of studies on the processes of urbanization in Myanmar seen ''from below'' (that is, from the perspective of citizens) are recent and mostly centered on Yangon (Matelski and Sabrié 2019;Sabrié 2019;Kyed 2019;Forbes 2019;Hong 2020), with the exception of a survey located in Bagan and mostly related to the impact of tourism development (Rick and Franck 2016).…”

Section: Questioning Urban Change In Southeast Asia and Myanmarmentioning

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Everyday geographies in the changing city: subjective photo-routes in Mandalay, Myanmar

Puttilli

2020

GeoJournal

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This work upholds the importance of questioning young people to find out their point of view on urban transformation and grasp their perception and representation of the changes. Hence, the paper presents the methodology and results of an autophotography activity, and more specifically photo-routing organized in March 2018 with a group of young undergraduates at Mandalay University, Myanmar. In the sphere of this activity, the participants were asked to reflect on their relationship with the urban space and to use a camera to capture significant places and situations in their everyday experience of the city, with the goal of exploring their personal point of view on the changes occurring in it, both from a tangible and intangible perspective, in addition to how they are reflected in the everyday practice of the city. The idea at the basis of the research-intervention is that the focus on everyday life through qualitative and visual investigation techniques enables the emergence of some of the-both conscious and not-more-thanrepresentational ways in which people-a group of young adults in this specific case-perceive and live the processual nature of the city. Results show that the photo-route tool proved to be particularly effective in stimulating a critical gaze on the city and the changes underway, to acquire awareness of the constantly inbecoming nature of the places and reflect in an introspective manner on their own life course in relation to the city. Thus, the paper provides a contribution ''from below'' to the reflections on urban transformations going on in Southeast Asian cities and, more precisely, in Myanmar.Keywords Photo-routes Á Young adults Á Urban change Á MandalayThe intervention was carried out in collaboration with Stefano Bartolini, at the time research fellow at the University of Florence, who took part in devising and conducting the activity and took care of the technical aspects linked to the acquisition of the geo-referenced images on GIS. Thanks also go to Dr. Nyo Nyo, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Mandalay, for her logistical and organizational support.

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Being and becoming ‘dropouts’: contextualizing dropout experiences of youth migrant workers in transitional Myanmar

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People’s Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People’s Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon

Symbolic habitus and new aspirations of higher education elites in transitional Myanmar

Everyday geographies in the changing city: subjective photo-routes in Mandalay, Myanmar

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