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The Politics of Citizenship and Difference in Sri Lankan Schools
Author(s) -
Sørensen Birgitte Refslund
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00031.x
Subject(s) - citizenship , politics , tamil , sri lanka , sociology , curriculum , construct (python library) , gender studies , citizenship education , work (physics) , social science , political science , pedagogy , law , anthropology , south asia , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language , engineering
This article explores the formation of citizenship in Tamil‐medium minority schools in Sri Lanka. It is argued that although the new curriculum aims to construct an inclusive notion of national citizenship, the influence of politics on education in reality creates dominant experiences of discrimination and marginalization. I argue, however, that in the more resourceful communities, social networks are effectively put to work to generate an alternative authoritative notion of peripheral citizenship. [citizenship, minorities, education, Sri Lanka]