Abstract

• Nowadays the old Myanmar magazines are very rare but those reflect Myanmar social life and custom including the situation of politics, education in the past. Magazines are one of the most often accessed information resources by public and include various subjects of writings by numerous writers. The research paper attempts to study and focus on the Pyinnya magazine appeared during the period of 1938 to 1956. The first issue was published in January 1938 and it was an old Myanmar educational magazine under the patronage of Education Department. The magazine was published 116 issues during these year but 76 issues only were found. The Pyinnya magazine aimed at giving benefits to all teachers, students and even schools for native. Based on the data collection of literary search method, the paper has studied the features of each magazine in respect to background history, design, and layout, publishing and responsible persons of the magazine after that content of the literary values appeared in magazine. The result gained from the paper is to our knowledge of teaching and teaching methods, education system and condition of school teachers over 50 years ago.