Research Publications

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Myanmar Academy of Art & Science List of Research

No. Researcher Title Abstract Year
2341 Hnin Aye Phyo ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF NAGAYON TEMPLE IN THE BAGAN PERIOD The Nagayon temple, one of the most important architectural specimens ever built by King Kyanzittha to the early Bagan Period. The main characteristic feature of the earlier temple in Bagan is either square or extension added to make it rectangular. Nagayon usually has a square plan. Nagayon architecture is a part of the architectural heritage that has been handed down to us from the Bagan Period. The architecture of Nagayon temple shows its aspect in the perspective of the architectural movement as briefly described in this paper. 2024
2342 Pann Ei Khaing Soe INVENTORY OF LATERITE MONUMENTS REMAIN AT PA-DA-GYI Invention of laterite remains at Pa-da-gyi city are studied by archaeological point of view. The Pada-gyi area is one of the archaeological sites in Kyauktan, Township, Yangon Region, which can give extensive laterite cultural sequence. The area has old ancient sites and a large number of archaeological remains such as religious shrines, secular structures of laterites, laterite images of Buddha, laterite foundation of stupas, sima stones, statutes of various sizes of laterite figures, animal figures, human figures of glaze, city walls of laterite, laterite moats, roads of laterite, bridges of laterite, stairs of laterite, glazed earthen-ware and potshards …. etc. Some laterite constructions are of religious purposes. This paper will emphasize on the laterite culture of Pa-dagyi area in Kyauktan Township, Yangon Region from excavation archaeological point of view. 2024
2343 Thu Zar Aung LEARNING FROM THE PAST: TRACING THE HISTORY OF MANU MANAW ETHNIC GROUPS IN MYANMAR Myanmar is known as a melting pot and there are over one hundred ethnic groups. The major ethnic groups are Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Bamar, Mon, Rakhine and Shan. Manu Manaw national is included in Kayah ethnic group and they mostly reside in the Phruso township, Kayah State. The aim of this research is to find out how Manu Manaw is related to two major ethnic groups, Kayah and Kayin groups from anthropological point of view. This research was conducted in Taw Khu village, Pa Lei Le village, Hto Khwee Hso village and Khrow Kho village in Phruso township, and data were collected by using literature survey, the ethnographic methods including participant observation, individual in-depth interview and group interview. By studying from the point of physical anthropology and ethnography, it is known that Kayahs including Manu Manaw people are included in the language group of Kayin who are the southern Mongoloid, migrated from Tibet, China. 2024
2344 Yu Yu Naing CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET REPORT COLLECTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANDALAY LIBRARY (1928-1930) This paper studies one of the ceased newspapers The Market Report (Zayhnoun Thadinsar) published in Myanmar during the colonial period. There are various kinds of newspapers in Myanmar. It is commercial reporting news in Myanmar. The purpose of the paper is to reveal information appeared in this newspaper. The study analyzes information in the 453 copies of the newspapers published between 1928 and 1930. Literature search method was conducted to collect necessary data from the newspapers and other sources. And then content analysis was also used to quantify the occurrence of certain words, phrases, subject or concepts in this newspaper. As this newspaper is commercial reporting news, the findings of the study show economic situation of Myanmar during the colonial period. Besides, the role of newspapers, contents and contributions can be assessed at that time. Researchers and readers can get benefits by the studying the newspaper. They can learn not only politics, economics, social, religion and culture, but also styles of Myanmar spelling of that period. 2024
2345 Phyu Zar Zar Theint, Thet Naing Oo & Phyu Phyu Yin AN INVESTIGATION INTO PRACTICES OF MENTORS ON MENTORING STRATEGIES This paper intended to study the extent of mentors’ practices on mentoring strategies (MSs), to investigate the variations of mentors’ practices on MSs according to their regions and to reveal the variations of mentors’ practices on MSs according to their gender. The practices of mentors were examined by using seven components (modelling, cognitive coaching, design conversation, feedback, wellbeing conversation, classroom observation and reflective dialogue) of performance management framework for factors of MSs for beginning teachers (BTs). The content validity index was 0.976 and reliability coefficient (Cronbach ?) was 0.96 for level of practices about a set of MSs Questionnaire. All 273 mentors were selected by using the census method for mail survey. For interview, 18 mentors were selected by using purposive sampling method. Mixed research method was used. Data were analyzed by using One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Independent Samples t Test. Mentors practised to a great extent in overall practices of seven components of MSs. There was a significant difference between central region (CR) and upper region (UR), but there were no significant differences between male and female mentors in overall practices. 2024
2346 Hay Man Pyae Pyae Phyo and Su Su Hlaing RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL LEADERS’ INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TEACHERS’ FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCY ACROSS THE 21st CENTURY LEARNING This study examined the relationship between school leaders’ instructional leadership and teachers’ functional competency in west district, Yangon Region. The research design was the descriptive research design. For this study, 10 high school leaders who had above 2 years administrative services in the current schools were chosen by using purposive sampling method and 200 teachers from these schools were selected by using simple random sampling method. In this study, both quantitative and qualitative methods were applied. For quantitative study, a set of questionnaires was used. For qualitative study, open-ended and interview questions were used. Descriptive Statistics, Independent Samples t Test, One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Pearson Correlation were used for analyzing the collected data. According to the findings, it was found that the level of high school leaders’ instructional leadership was high (Mean= 4.16, SD= .63) and there were significant differences in high school leaders’ instructional leadership in terms of total service, total administrative service. Moreover, it was found that the level of teachers’ functional competency was also high (Mean= 4.34, SD= .55) and there was significant difference in teachers’ functional competency in terms of their position. This finding also revealed that there was a strong positive correlation between school leaders’ instructional leadership and teachers’ functional competency (r =.692, p <.001). This study recommends that school leaders contribute the instructional leadership practices to improve teachers’ functional competency. 2024
2347 Suu Myat Aung and Nu Nu Yee A STUDY OF PRINCIPALS’ SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP PRACTICES The primary purpose of this study is to study sustainable leadership practices of principals. By using purposive sampling, 30 principals and a total of 399 teachers from Basic Education High Schools in Four Townships of Hinthada District in Ayeyarwaddy Region were selected as the participants. Two sets of questionnaire and open-ended questions were used to collect the required data. The internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of the questionnaire for principals’ practices was (0.96). Descriptive research method was used to tabulate the mean values and standard deviations for groups of items. Moreover, Independent Samples t-Test, One-way ANOVA and post-hoc test by Tukey were used for the analysis of the data. The results found that the extent of principals’ sustainable practices was 3.46. According to the mean value, all principals participated in this study were found that sometimes practiced on principals’ sustainable leadership practices. Statistically significant differences were found in some areas of sustainable leadership practices according to their personal factors perceived by teachers. When investigating the levels of sustainable leadership practices of principals according to the qualitative findings, it was found that the principals performed in sustainable leadership practices according their responses. 2024
2348 Su Myat Hnin Wai and Phyu Zar Zar Theint A STUDY OF PRIMARY LEVEL PRINCIPALS’ PRACTICES ON PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT The general objective of the research is to study primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement. The specific objectives are to examine primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement and to reveal the variations of primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement according to their demographic data. Mixed method was used in this study. The samples for quantitative study are 170 primary level principals from Eastern District, Yangon Region by using cluster sampling method. For qualitative study, 8 primary level principals were interviewed by using purposive sampling method. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) for primary level principals’ practices on parental involvement questionnaire was 0.84. Descriptive Statistics, Independent Samples t Test, and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. Primary level principals practised to a moderate extent in overall parental involvement. With respect to gender, there was a significant difference between male and female. With regard to age groups, primary level principals between the age groups of 27-37 years and 49-59 years were statistically significant different in ‘Communicating’, ‘Learning at Home’ and ‘Decision Making’. Based on qualitative study, although primary level principals practised parental involvement, they had struggle conditions that make delay for implementing their practices. Since this study found that there were weakness in “Volunteering” practices, all stakeholders should support volunteer activities in order to involve parents as volunteers. 2024
2349 Yu Yu San and Khin Mar Ni FACTORS AFFECTING PRINCIPALS’ INSTRUCTIONAL SUPERVISION PRACTICES The general objective of this study is to study factors affecting principals’ instructional supervision practices in Basic Education High Schools in Pathein and Thapaung Townships. In this study, sample size of respondents such as thirty-six principals and 216 teachers from Basic Education High Schools were selected by using purposive sampling for principals and equal-size sampling for teachers. The questionnaires and open-ended questions were developed and modified the items by reviewing on Wanjiru’s (2015) items, theorical framework and previous related literature to collect the required data. Four-point and five-point Likert-scales were employed to identify the level and extent of principals’ instructional supervision practices (Coklar et al., 2016). The internal consistencies (Cronbach’s alpha) were 0.87 for principals and 0.96 for teachers. Descriptive statistics, One-way ANOVA, Independent Samples t-Test and Multiple Regression were used to analyze the quantitative data. Principals’ instructional supervision practices practiced in this study was high (Mean=3.36, SD=.37). There were no significant differences in practices of principal instructional supervision between the groups of gender and administrative experience. There were significant differences in principals’ instructional supervision practices between the groups by age, position and school size. According to the results of multiple regression analysis, position, work load and teachers’ attitude are the best predictors of factors on principals’ instructional supervision practices. As the results of qualitative study, open-ended responses of principals and teachers were consistent with the findings of quantitative study. 2024
2350 Zuu Zuu Lwin and Su Su Hlaing A STUDY OF PRINCIPALS’ PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATION DEGREE COLLEGES This study intended to investigate principals’ practices on organizational justice perceived by teacher educators in Education Degree Colleges. Participants were 150 teacher educators and 4 principals, selected by using a purposive sampling method. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in this study. Questionnaires were used for teacher educators’ expectations on organizational justice practised by principals and principals’ practices perceived by teacher educators. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach ?) was 0.97 for the questionnaire of teacher educators’ expectations and 0.85 for the questionnaire of principals’ practices on organizational justice. Descriptive statistics, Independent Samples t test and Paired Samples t test were used to analyse the collected data. Quantitative findings revealed that teacher educators highly expected on principals’ practices on overall organizational justice in Education Degree Colleges. However, principals moderately practised on overall organizational justice perceived by teacher educators. There were significant differences in the principal’s practices on organizational justice according to their personal factors. Moreover, the qualitative study analysed the principals’ responses to open-ended questions. According to qualitative findings, principals answered that they practised organizational justice such as providing rewards to teacher educators for their contributions to the organization, and distributing tasks based on teacher educators’ skills and qualifications. Further, they considered teacher educators’ opinions, expressed respect to teacher educators’ suggestions, and provided the detailed information from different media to all teacher educators. 2024