The Struggle for a Multilingual Future
Youth and Education in Sri Lanka
In 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, desp…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-094749-1
- EAN: 9780190947491
- Produktnummer: 33299353
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 12'431 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 illus.
Über den Autor
Christina P. Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Illinois University.
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