Nicolas SALEM-GERVAIS
Adjunct researcher
Statutory researcher from 2022 to 2024
A geographer by training, Nicolas Salem-Gervais has been teaching Burmese language at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) since 2008. Affiliated with the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), his work focuses on various aspects of the links between formal education and the process of national construction in Myanmar (Burma). More specifically, he is interested in the question of national novels transmitted by history textbooks, as well as in the various issues underlying language policy in schools. His current and future work, as part of a delegation to IRASEC, also includes issues related to education for Burmese migrants in Thailand.
Selected bibliography
- 2024, Education in Post-Coup Myanmar : A Shattered Landscape with Resilient Actors, with Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Phyo Wai, Myo Sett Paing and Pau Sian Lian, IRASEC/KAS/IHRP, 316p.
- 2023, “Curricular Decentralisation as an Antidote to “Burmanisation” ? Including Ethnic Minorities’ Histories in Myanmar’s Government Schools (2011–2020)”, in Ting, H.M.H., Cajani, L. (eds) Negotiating Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in History Education, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Salem-Gervais N., Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Jung Benatar and Chan, 2023, « Amendment of the National Education Law and other language in-education developments following the 2021 military coup in Myanmar » (part 1 et part 2), Tea Circle Myanmar.
- Samuel J. et Salem-Gervais N., 2023, « Langues transnationales en Asie du Sud-Est : les amitiés distantes des thaï-lao et indonésien-malais(ien) », in L’Asie du Sud-Est 2023 : bilan, enjeux et perspectives.
- Salem-Gervais N. and Ja Seng, 2022, « From Fluidity to Discretization… and Fractal Recursivity ? Opportunities and Challenges Underpinning the Introduction of Minority Languages in Kachin State’s government schools (2011-2020) », pp 5-40, Moussons n°39.
- Salem-Gervais N. and Van Cung Lian, 2020, « How many Chin languages should be taught in government schools ? Ongoing developments and structural challenges of language-in-education policy in Chin State » in Parami Journal of Education Vol.1, n°1, Yangon.
- Salem-Gervais N. et Raynaud M., 2020, Teaching ethnic languages in government schools and developing the local curriculum : Elements of decentralization in language-in-education policy, Rapport pour le Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Yangon, 185 pages.
- Salem-Gervais N. et Metro R., 2012 « A textbook case of nation-building : The discursive evolution of state and non-state history curricula under military rule in Myanmar », avec Rosalie Metro dans The Journal of Burma Studies, Vol. 16 n°1.
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