scholarly journals English Education in Sri Lanka With Emphasis on English Medium Instruction at Secondary And Tertiary Levels: The Past, Present And Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Abdul Majeed Mohamed Navaz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Education System ◽  
English Education ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
English Medium Instruction

This paper focuses on the education system of Sri Lanka in the post-colonial and contemporary periods with a focus on English education. This review briefly explains how the changes were made by colonial rulers to introduce English education into the tiny island and how the local rulers attempted to diminish the importance of English education in the country in the post-colonial period. This review also assesses the reintroduction of English education and analyses different reasons for the changing roles of English education. Finally, this review explores the English Medium Instruction (EMI) at both secondary and tertiary levels and the underlying reasons for the success and failures of the EMI. Some brief suggestions are also made to overcome the present challenges in the system. Initially, this review commences with a brief description of the country and the education system. This is followed by the English medium instruction at schools and universities, the challenges and recommendations.

A Demon with Ruby Eyes

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-369
Author(s):  
Manan Ahmed Asif
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Religious Difference ◽  
The Past ◽  
Textual Production

This essay takes a longitudinal look at how different communities dealt with political and theological difference in the same space. It examines accounts of Uch Sharif, in contemporary Pakistan, from the thirteenth century to the present. It specifically traces a motif of ‘ruby eyes’ in Arabic and Persian historiography in an effort to delineate how difference was represented and assimilated. It argues that until the late colonial period, religious difference was mutually comprehensible, even if incommensurate. The rupture of meaning in recognising difference continued in different ways in the post-colonial state of Pakistan. The study provides a methodological argument for reshaping the ways in which we look at landscape, built environment and community, in contemporary South Asia. By situating the textual production of the past alongside the material remnants of the past, this essay reads simultaneously ethnographic and textual understandings of difference in Uch Sharif.

World Englishes and English-Using Communities

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 66-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Braj B. Kachru
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conference Presentations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

This survey includes studies published mainly—but not exclusively—during the 1990s and focuses on literature that brings to the debate on world Englishes theoretical, conceptual, descriptive, ideological, and power-related concerns. The concept “world Englishes”—its genesis and its theoretical, contextual, and pedagogical implications and appropriateness—has been discussed during the past two decades in several programmatic studies and conference presentations (see B. Kachru 1994a). The concept, though not necessarily the term “world Englishes,” gradually evolved during the post-colonial period after the 1960s. It refers to the recognition of a unique linguistic phenomenon, and particularly to the changing contexts of the post-1940s. It was during this period that post-Imperial Englishes were being gradually institutionalized in the language policies of the changed political, educational, and ideological contexts of what were earlier the colonies of the UK and the USA. The earlier tradition of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic acquisition of English, its teaching, and its transformations were being reevaluated by some researchers. The major concerns of this reevaluation include the implications of pluricentricity (Clyne 1992), the new and emerging norms of performance, and the acceptance of the bilingual's creativity as a manifestation of the contextual and formal hybridity of Englishes. In other words, a critical evaluation of earlier paradigms was slowly initiated.

scholarly journals SRI AUROBINDO’S EDUCATION POLICY IN PRE AND POST COLONIAL INDIA

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Rina Avinash Pitale Puradkar
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Education System ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
National Education ◽  
Sri Aurobindo ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Structure Of Education

The greatest educationalist, those who played important roles in designing education systems have, in their quest to develop ideal processes and structure of education. The new pedagogy of national education impels a further realization of the potentialities of the child and its soul, a realisation that was explicitly stated in the writings of the nationalist leaders who inspired and led the movement of national education in India. In this paper I have tried to revisit the philosophy of education of Sri Aurobindo who tried to provide solution to the problem generated by Macaulayan education system in India during pre and post-colonial period.

scholarly journals TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP AND CORRUPTION IN PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA: HOW THE PAST AFFECTS THE PRESENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benson Ohihon Igboin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Leadership ◽  
Human Rights Violation

There are two popular schools of thought about corruption in pre-colonial Africa – the Afrocentric view and that of decolonisation. The latter argues that there were corrupt practices broadly defined in pre-colonial Africa, since corruption is a universal concept. It further argues that many traditional African leaders were and are still corrupt, independent of colonial influence. Therefore, they could not be insulated from corruption. The Afrocentric school argues that pre-colonial African leaders were responsible and responsive to their subjects and avoided corruption as much as possible. It maintains that traditional African leaders in the pre-colonial period could hardly be said to be corrupt, because of the communal spirit that guided their operation. This paper critically examines both views and posits that corrupt practices as a human rights violation were present in pre-colonial Africa and still resonate in post-colonial Africa.

The Protection of Cultural Property: Post-Colonial and Post-Conflict Perspectives from Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-450
Author(s):  
Naazima Kamardeen
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Abstract:Cultural property is related to the evolution of a nation’s identity. It forms a vital link to the past, wherefrom the present and future may be nurtured and enriched. However, objects related to cultural heritage have been the target of looting and pilfering, resulting in loss to the country concerned. The situation is worsened where these objects have been removed during an era where there were no laws and regulations to control such removal. This article focuses on the loss of cultural property with reference to two specific modes of loss of particular concern to Sri Lanka—the removal of cultural property during the colonial era and the loss of cultural property during the more recent ethnic conflict. Through an analysis of the relevant laws and regulations, this article evaluates Sri Lanka’s rights to its cultural property and its efforts to regain, and preserve, its cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Historical Perspective of Gender Typed Participation in the Performing Arts in Sri Lanka During the Pre- Colonial, The Colonial Era, and the Post- Colonial Eras

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Winojith Sanjeewa
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Gender Performances ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Performing Art

When the Sri Lankan performing art was analysed, a clear-cut difference in gender-typed participation in dancing, singing, playing music, and the traditional rituals (such as Shanthi karma) can be identified. Furthermore, this research has found that gender roles in performance have evolved through time. It can be seen how the existence of -Hindu- Buddhist practices from Vijaya’s arrival to Sri Lanka in 543 BCE to the period of Portuguese who conquered Sri Lanka in 1505 CE takes a new facet in the colonial period and the post-colonial period blending with the European concepts. It can be analysed as follows, First, the changes occurred in masculinity, femininity, or the concepts of Tandava, and Lasya, then the rituals relating to concepts of Divinity in the pre-colonial period, then the changing constructs and perspectives regarding gender performances in the colonial period and the gender shifts and gender synthesis in the post-colonial period.

scholarly journals Perubahan Fungsi pada Museum Fatahillah Ditinjau dari Teori Poskolonial

Humaniora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
Ariani Ariani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Hall

The Museum of Jakarta Historical, which popularly known as Fatahillah museum, is one of the importance historical buildings in Indonesia with abudance hictorical value. This neoclassic architectural building that was built around the 17th century had already been altered its function for several times, such as: a city hall (stadhius), the house of parliament, a prison especially to hang the convict, a military dorm in the end of colonial period, and a museum in the independence period. All changes of the Fatahillah Museum were observered with qualitative method accompanying with hermeneutics approach to describe its post-colonial study as a relevance result to its casual critical issue and culture. Hence, it could give another perspective of the meaning behind the colonization that ever happened and its impact nowadays. Today, the Fatahillah museum is still standing strong and majestic. The beauty of the architecture becomes a marker that colonial architecture has contributed indirectly to the development of architecture in Indonesia, apart from its function in the past. By studying the interpreted means of the Fatahillah Museum changes in function, the inheritance task is to care for and to preserve the Fatahillah Museum as one of historical witnesses. 

scholarly journals Modern Ethiopia and Colonial Eritrea

Aethiopica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Irma Taddia
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

The article develops some reflections on present-day Eritrea in the light of the colonial past and in the context of modern Ethiopia. If we consider Eritrea and its path towards independence, some differences and analogies emerge in comparison with other African colonies. The Eritrean independence is taking place today in a very specific context in post-colonial Africa. It is not a simple case of delayed decolonization, postponed by 30 years with respect to other former African colonies. The history of Eritrea must be studied within the colonial context: colonialism created a national identity, but Eritrea is a colony that did not become an independent state. This phenomenon can be attributed to various causes which I will try to underline. The process of state formation in Eritrea raises some problems for historians. The construction of a new political legitimacy is strictly connected to the birth of a national historiography in the country. I would like to examine in a critical way the process of writing history in contemporary Eritrea. Reconstructing the history of the past goes beyond the reconstruction of the history of the Eritrean state today. We have to consider the entire area – the Horn of Africa – in the pre-colonial period. The paper discusses the interrelation between the creation of the state and the national historiography.

scholarly journals Memory as an interculturality booster in Maputo, through the preservation of the colonial statuary

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-286
Author(s):  
Vítor de Sousa
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism ◽  
The Way

Since this is a matter that is not yet resolved, where the strength of ideologies and reuses may change deeply or even reverse the ways it is evoked, the colonial past may become a problem (Vecchi, 2018a). This is the case of Portuguese colonialism which is frequently invoked to stress resentments: whether from the country that was colonised or the colonising country (Ferro, 2009). As soon as the Portuguese Revolution of 25 April 1974 took place, Mozambique promoted the elimination of colonialism symbols. This predictable attitude, aiming to show that the colonisation had ended, was later amended by the future Governments, with the colonial statues (at least, the ones that remained) being relocated to a place where they may be observed and contextualised. This action aimed to preserve the memory, which may enable the development of intercultural dynamics, softening the mentioned resentment: promoting questioning, in order to understand certain logics and, at the same time, filling gaps in the forgotten memory and in the Mozambican identity (Khan, Falconi & Krakowska, 2016). This paper refers to the cases related to the new life of two colonial statues in Maputo – Mouzinho de Albuquerque and Salazar –, during the post-colonial period and the permanence, until today, of the first monumental trace of Estado Novo [Second Republic] (Monumento aos Mortos da Primeira Guerra Mundial [World War I monument]), showing the importance that the preservation of memory has in a country or a nation’s life, even when it is associated with the former coloniser. This sort of mental decolonisation (Mbembe, 2017; Thiong’o, 1986), aims the questioning of the way the colonial past weighs on the current intercultural relations, in Mozambique, when the country establishes a relation with the former coloniser, allowing its inhabitants to look at the past as a way to build future dynamics.

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