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Globalisation, Employment and Education in Sri Lanka - Opportunity and Division (Paperback)
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Globalisation, Employment and Education in Sri Lanka - Opportunity and Division (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
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Since the late 1970s, Sri Lanka has undergone a socio-economic
transformation, from protectionism towards economic liberalisation
and increasing integration into the world economy. Through a
systematic comparison of these periods of economic change
(1956-1977, and 1977 to the present), Angela W. Little and Siri T.
Hettige examine the impact of this transformation on education,
youth employment and equality of opportunity in Sri Lanka. The book
charts Sri Lanka's shift from a predominantly agricultural economy
to one dominated by services and manufacturing, a reduction in
unemployment, rising educational and occupational levels,
expectations and achievements, and a reduction in poverty. In turn,
it reveals a growing role for the private sector and foreign
interests in post-secondary education and a modest growth in
private education at the primary and secondary levels, as well as
widening social disparities in access to qualifications, training
and skills. The Sri Lankan experience of, and engagement with,
globalisation has been tempered by a long-running ethnic conflict
that hindered economic and social development and diverted
considerable public funds into defence and war. Now that the war is
'won', the challenge is how to invest in human resource development
and the fulfilment of the expectations of youth from all ethnic and
social groups. This challenge requires serious policy analysis, the
generation of more state revenues, the reallocation of existing
public resources, and a political commitment to the winning of a
sustainable peace and stability. This book makes an important
contribution to the broader international literature on the
implications of globalisation for education policy and practice,
and to the interaction of exogenous and endogenous forces for
educational change. It deals with the tension between the high
social demand for education and the growing demand for specialised
skills in a changing economy. As such, it has a wide
interdisciplinary appeal across education policy and politics,
Asian education, South Asian society, youth policy, sociology of
education, political economy of social change, and globalisation.
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