Christina P Davis

The Struggle for a Multilingual Future

Youth and Education in Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

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 during and after the civil war. Davis investigates the efficacy of national reforms in relation to how ideologies of linguistic, ethnic, religious, and class difference are reinforced and challenged in everyday interactions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780190947477
• ISBN-10: 0190947470
• Artikelnr.: 57877917

Autorenporträt

Christina P. Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Illinois University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transcription and Transliteration
Introduction
School Segregation and Language-Based Ethnic Divisions
Teachers and "Legitimate" Tamil in a Multilingual School
English and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan City
Peer Groups and Tamil Identity in and outside Schools
Tamil Speech and Ethnic Conflict in Public Spaces
Conclusion
References
Index