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The struggle for a multilingual future : youth and education in Sri Lanka / Christina P. Davis.
Penn Museum Library LC3737.S72 D38 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Christina P. (Anthropologist), author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in the anthropology of language
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Education.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Education.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Multilingual education.
- Sri Lanka--Ethnic relations.
- Sri Lanka.
- Ethnic relations.
- Multilingual education--Sri Lanka.
- Education and state--Sri Lanka.
- Education and state.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Education--Sri Lanka.
- Muslims--Education--Sri Lanka.
- Muslims.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press [2020]
- Summary:
- The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education policies that were among the complex causes of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009), the government has recently sought to promote interethnic integration through trilingual language policies in Sinhala, Tamil, and English in state schools. Integrating ethnographic and linguistic research in and around two schools during the last phase of the war, Davis's research shows how, despite the intention of the reforms, practices on the ground reinforce language-based models of ethnicity and sustain ethnic divisions and power inequalities. By engaging with the actual experiences of Tamil and Muslim youth, Davis demonstrates the difficulties of using language policy to ameliorate ethnic conflict if it does not also address how that conflict is produced and reproduced in everyday talk.
- Contents:
- 2 School Segregation and Language-Based Ethnic Divisions p. 24
- 3 Teachers and "Legitimate" Tamil in a Multilingual School p. 49
- 4 English and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan City p. 71
- 5 Peer Groups and Tamil Identity inside and outside Schools p. 99
- 6 Tamil Speech and Ethnic Conflict in Public Spaces p. 124.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780190947484
- 9780190947477
- 0190947470
- 0190947489
- OCLC:
- 1112279825
- Publisher Number:
- 99983923948
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