Juveniles' rights to education : examining the vocational proficiency of juvenile offenders at Nget-Aw-San boys' training school
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2024
Copyright Date
2021
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Language
eng
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application/pdf
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xi, 125 leaves: ill.
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open access
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ผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้า
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights))--Mahidol University, 2021
Suggested Citation
Nyein, Nyein Thant Aung, 1997- Juveniles' rights to education : examining the vocational proficiency of juvenile offenders at Nget-Aw-San boys' training school. Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights))--Mahidol University, 2021. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/99432
Title
Juveniles' rights to education : examining the vocational proficiency of juvenile offenders at Nget-Aw-San boys' training school
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Abstract
Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child (UNCRC), Myanmar has reaffirmed the rights to education of children. During the past five years, the NLD government encouraged technical and vocational education as a part of national education policy. In addition, institutional care for juvenile offenders has been developed for decades since the enactment of the Young Offenders Act in 1930. As juveniles are minors, education is one of their inalienable rights. Literature on correctional education implies the barriers for the juveniles in pursuing formal education during incarceration. After checking the references on correctional education in Myanmar, the research found the gap in vocational education as a part of juveniles' correctional education. Therefore, this research explores how juvenile offenders receive vocational training as a part of programs for correctional education. This research questions the proficiency of juvenile offenders in the vocational skills acquired from the education programs delivered at Nget-Aw-San Training School. Based on the systematic review of studies on child rights and the juvenile justice system, the method of narrative research is deemed as applicable to this research. The narratives are triangulated by conducting interviews with all stakeholders, including the authorities of Nget-Aw-San's Boys Training School, juvenile offenders in that school, NGOs involved in offering the education programs, and journalists who have covered the issues of juveniles. Paradigmatic shift, resource allocation, collaboration, organizational structure, vocational training, and post-release employment are the key concepts used in this study. Rights to Education, Prison Education, United Nations Generable Assembly Resolutions for the Juveniles such as Beijing Rule, Havana Rules and Ridhya Guidelines, and United Nations Convention on the Rights of Child (UNCRC) support the study in conceptualization. Analysis of the acquired data showed that administering the issues of juveniles is slowly evolving, and the paradigmatic change can happen depending on the regime type, which encourages democratic governance. Under the NLD administration, the Department of Social Welfare adopted the practices for decentralized decision-making in their policy implementation. The decentralized authority has given positive results in organizational capacity, resource allocation, and collaboration. However, without the structural adjustment, the existing institution itself serves as the barrier to get one step further. All those weaknesses in inputs have an impact on correctional education for juvenile offenders. Therefore, this research argues that existing institutions and structure are the significant challenges in delivering correctional education for the juveniles and those challenges have a direct impact on their learning journey and vocational proficiency. Hence, this research recommends that the Myanmar government consider the institutional rearrangement or institutional change for the sake of rights to education of juveniles as a part of child rights. IMPLICATION OF THE THESIS. The paradigm shift for the issues of juvenile's right to education is one of the findings of this research, and the researcher argued that only democratic governance could provide educational services for juveniles. However, the change in regime type by the military coup in February 2021 has changed the political context. That change may impact the policymaking process for the issues of juveniles.
Description
Human Rights (Mahidol University 2021)
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
Degree Discipline
Human Rights
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University