Labouring to Learn: educational change among the Indian Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2007
Country:
Sri Lanka
Document Type:
Conference Paper
Theme:
Education
Authors:
Little, A.W.

Abstract

The paper focuses on educational change among a minority community in Sri Lanka, the plantation Tamils who currently comprise 5% of the population. Five phases of educational progress between 1840 and 1994 are identified. It is argued that the growing political consciousness and the political skills of human agency exerted at particular moments in Sri Lanka's economic and political history provide much of the explanation of educational change.

Citation

Deshkal Society Conference on Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives New Delhi, India, 14-16 Dec 2007, 9 pp.

Labouring to Learn: educational change among the Indian Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.

Published 1 January 2007
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