Little, Angela;
(2024)
Development, Education and Learning in Sri Lanka: An international research journey.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Sri Lanka’s early achievements in education and literacy became well known among the international development community in the middle of the last century and were often used to benchmark progress elsewhere. Development, Education and Learning in Sri Lanka presents an illuminating narrative of changing education fortunes and inequalities, based on half a century of research. This research journey was undertaken in collaboration with Sri Lankan researchers island-wide in myriad communities, schools, classrooms and education offices, through conversations with countless parents, teachers, students, community members, trade union officers, politicians and members of local, national and international development agencies, as well as through extensive documentary analysis. The book delineates the distinctive and changing features of the Sri Lankan education system through comparisons with systems elsewhere, through an understanding of national political, economic and social conditions, crises and upheavals, through changes in education policy and through shifting patterns of opportunity among diverse social groups. These analyses are framed by themes in the international development discourse ranging from modernisation to basic needs to globalisation and sustainable development, some of which themes have been influenced by the Sri Lankan story. The book’s overriding messages are the need to understand education and development in a country’s own terms, and to place learning at the heart of education policy, situating it within broader conceptions of the purpose, values and means of development.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Development, Education and Learning in Sri Lanka: An international research journey |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800081550 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800081550 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800081550 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2024 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 The author has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Little, A. W., 2024. Development, Education and Learning in Sri Lanka: An international research journey. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800081550 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | education, area studies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192181 |
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