|
|
books
| book details |
Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education
By (author) Pia Jolliffe
|
| on special |
normal price: R 1 719.95
Price: R 1 633.95
|
| book description |
Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children’s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia Jolliffe discusses traditional patterns of socio-cultural learning within Karen communities as well as the role of Christian missionaries in introducing schooling to the Karen in Burma and in Thailand. This is followed by an analysis of children’s migration for education in northern Thailand where state schools often encourage students’ aspirations towards upward social mobility at the same time as schools reproduce social inequality between the rural Karen and urban Thai society. The author draws attention to international humanitarian agencies who deliver education to refugees and migrants at the Thai-Burma border, as well as the role of UK government schools in the process of resettling Karen refugees. In this way, the book analyses the connections between learning, migration and intergenerational relations in households, schools and other institutions at the local, regional and global level.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan
Published date | 21 Sep 2016
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 180
Dimensions | 210 x 148 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-1375-7217-2
Readership Age |
BISAC |
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 2 192.95
Price | R 2 083.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
This is indeed a story of mercy and the redemption it offers.
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is washing blood off his hands when the ceasefire is announced.
|
|
|
|
