Sri Lankan Lessons. Reimagining Ethnic Habitus through Language Policy and Education. 1st ed. 2026.

Autor/inn/en	Wijesekera, Harsha Dulari; Lo Bianco, Joseph
Titel	Sri Lankan Lessons. Reimagining Ethnic Habitus through Language Policy and Education. 1st ed. 2026.
Quelle	Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland (2026), XXI, 292 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Language Policy. 39
Beigaben	Illustrationen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monografie
ISBN	978-3-032-24918-0; 978-3-032-24919-7; 978-3-032-24920-3; 978-3-032-24921-0
DOI	10.1007/978-3-032-24919-7
Schlagwörter	Bildungspolitik; Planung; Lernen; Lehren; Sprache; Sprachunterricht; Ethnische Identität; Politik; Sprachpolitik; Habitus
Abstract	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. Inhalt: chapter one: why sri lanka matters: language policy, nation building and conflict mitigation -- chapter two: laws, language and discourse: sri lanka's colonial and immediate post-colonial transition period -- chapter three: understanding change -- chapter four: realigning ethnic habitus in the multiethnic be pedagogic field -- chapter six: linguistic market and ethnic habitus shaping in multiethnic be field -- chapter seven: ways forward: language policy implications and reflections on reconciliation and peacebuilding.
Erfasst von	Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Update	2026/4