Anthropological literature on education
Individual Documents
Description:
"Ethnographic research in low-income countries provides the kind of
detailed and thick descriptive data needed for understanding educational
processes and the role of education for quasi-literate minority populations
in agricultural economies. Education is essential to stabilizing the lives of
young people embedded in shattering traditional cultures, struggling to
transition and adapt to life and work in the contemporary globalized and
market-driven world. Field research can shed light on fruitful paths created
by enterprising individuals working together in teaching teams. Research
can help connect the educational process and outcomes to meaningful
human development goals and to career opportunities within the context
of local economic expansions tied to world markets. The research
reported in the following chapters on the Karen refugees of Burma—now
Myanmar—by Dr. Pia Jolliffe thus offers especially rich, compelling and
poignant substantive data on the concrete challenges and issues faced specifically
by a small group of Karen youth—real human beings—whose lives
and identities have been destabilized by conflict, violence, displacement
and their refugee status..."
Pia Jolliffe
Source/publisher:
Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
Date of publication:
2016-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-05-04
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Anthropological literature on education, Education in Karen (Kayin) State, Education of migrants from Burma
Language:
English
Format :
pdf
Size:
2.44 MB
more