Youth and Education in Sri Lanka
Christina P. Davis
Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
- Demonstrates the challenges of promoting peace and interethnic tolerance through multilingual language policies in post-civil war Sri Lanka
- Explores how power inequalities and ethnic conflict are created and perpetuated in everyday social interactions
- Advances studies in the ethnography of education by exploring ethnic divisions and educational inequalities in relation to youths' lives beyond the classroom
- Shows how Tamil and Muslim youth managed forms of monitoring and the reinforcing of ethnicity, and created futures for themselves in the conflict-ridden nation
Published: 27 February 2020
216 Pages | 10 illustrations
235x156mm
ISBN: 9780190947477