Sri Lankan lessons reimagining ethnic habitus through language policy and education Harsha Dulari Wijesekera, Joseph Lo Bianco

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wijesekera, Harsha Dulari, author.

Lo Bianco, Joseph, author.

Series:

Language policy (Monographic series) ; v. 39.

Language policy 2452-1027 volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language policy.

Language and education--Government policy.

Sri Lanka.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland Springer [2026]

Summary:

"This book analyses the post-conflict reality of language policy and planning in Sri Lanka. It examines and interprets how socio-politically and economically driven decisions, shaped by both exogenous and endogenous factors, have demonstrably generated negative socially situated conditions that exacerbate existing struggles in state-building in Sri Lanka. The book takes a kaleidoscopic view of the mixed implications of mother-tongue instruction and bilingual education through application of a Bourdieusian lens. In light of the legacies and influence of the bitter civil disruptions of the latter part of the 20th century, especially a 30 year-long ethnic conflict in which language education settings were a regular feature of dissent and conflict, compromise and innovation, the volume looks at Language Policy and Planning in education, with reference to the wider socio-political context of ethnic relations and post-colonial reconstruction. This book is of interest to sociologists of language, education and peacebuilding, conflict analysts, development studies personnel and political scientists, as well as university students, linguistic anthropologists, researchers, and language policy planners"-- Springer Nature Link

Contents:

Why Sri Lanka matters : language policy, nation building and conflict mitigation

Laws, language and discourse : Sri Lanka’s colonial and immediate post-colonial transition period

Understanding change

Realigning ethnic habitus in the multiethnic bilingual education pedagogic field

Shaping ethnic habitus through BE pedagogic practices

Linguistic market and ethnic habitus shaping in multiethnic BE field

Ways forward : language policy implications and reflections on reconciliation and peacebuilding

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springer Nature Link, viewed May 22, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Wijesekera, Harsha Dulari Sri Lankan lessons

ISBN:

9783032249197

3032249198

OCLC:

1592009042

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