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Author Davis, Christina P. (Anthropologist), author.

Title The struggle for a multilingual future : youth and education in Sri Lanka / Christina P. Davis
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Oxford studies in the anthropology of language
Oxford studies in the anthropology of language.
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 1, 2020)
Subject Multilingual education -- Sri Lanka
Education and state -- Sri Lanka
Tamil (Indic people) -- Education -- Sri Lanka
Muslims -- Education -- Sri Lanka
Sociolinguistics -- Sri Lanka
Sociolinguistics.
Education and state.
Ethnic relations.
Multilingual education.
Muslims -- Education.
Tamil (Indic people) -- Education.
SUBJECT Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations
Subject Sri Lanka.
Form Electronic book
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