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dc.contributor.authorZulfika, Sithy Fathimaen
dc.contributor.authorSoliman, Izabelen
dc.contributor.authorTamatea, Laurenceen
dc.contributor.authorWare, Helenen
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-16T16:26:00Z-
dc.date.created2008-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1848-
dc.description.abstractThis research project explores the barriers to girls' access to schooling in Sri Lanka. Specifically it comprises a critical ethnographic investigation of those barriers preventing girls accessing primary schooling in the Kalmunai Education Zone (KEZ) in Northeast Sri Lanka. While the study was motivated by concern about the low numbers of girls returning to primary schooling following the Asian Tsunami (2004), it presents an analysis of this outcome that is linked to pre-tsunami social, economic, political and cultural dynamics, including the impact of ethnic tension and war. As a critical ethnography, the research project draws specifically upon the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, and critical theory in general to identify and examine the range of barriers to girls accessing schooling. The study finds that an extensive and interconnecting range of factors coalesce to construct barriers to girls' schooling in the Kalmunai Education Zone. These factors, which range from specific religious assumptions about 'appropriate' lifestyles choices for girls, to safety and concerns about family economic welfare in conditions of poverty, are discussed in terms of Bourdieu's notions of economic, social and cultural capital. Together these various forms of capital are implicated in the barriers to girls' access to schooling. Analysis of the perceptions of the various stakeholders (the girls, parents, teachers and education officials) of girls' schooling shows that by and large girls' access to primary schooling in the KEZ is constrained by their location within a 'habitus', which largely constructs girls as subordinate to the interests of men. This research project concludes that while this is a dynamic, which has arguably intensified in the post-tsunami context, a comprehensive understanding of the barriers to girls accessing schooling in the post-tsunami context cannot be achieved without also acknowledging the nature of the girls' habitus and the various forms of capital exiting in the pre-tsunami context.en
dc.languageenen
dc.titleBarriers to Girls' Accessing Primary Schooling in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka: A Critical Ethnography of the Kalmunai Education Zoneen
dc.typeThesis Doctoralen
dc.subject.keywordsGender, Sexuality and Educationen
dc.subject.keywordsGender Specific Studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsSociology of Educationen
local.contributor.firstnameSithy Fathimaen
local.contributor.firstnameIzabelen
local.contributor.firstnameLaurenceen
local.contributor.firstnameHelenen
local.access.embargoedto2011-12-08en
local.subject.for2008130308 Gender, Sexuality and Educationen
local.subject.for2008169901 Gender Specific Studiesen
local.subject.for2008160809 Sociology of Educationen
local.subject.seo740102 Primary Educationen
local.subject.seo749905 Gender Aspects of Educationen
local.subject.seo749904 Education Across Culturesen
dcterms.RightsStatementCopyright 2008 - Sithy Fathima Zulfikaen
dc.date.conferred2009en
local.hos.emailhoshass@une.edu.auen
local.thesis.degreelevelDoctoralen
local.thesis.degreenameDoctor of Philosophyen
local.contributor.grantorUniversity of New Englanden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Educationen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
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local.profile.emailisoliman@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailltamatea@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailhware@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune_thesis-20081208-103024en
local.title.subtitleA Critical Ethnography of the Kalmunai Education Zoneen
local.contributor.lastnameZulfikaen
local.contributor.lastnameSolimanen
local.contributor.lastnameTamateaen
local.contributor.lastnameWareen
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local.title.maintitleBarriers to Girls' Accessing Primary Schooling in Post-Tsunami Sri Lankaen
local.output.categorydescriptionT2 Thesis - Doctorate by Researchen
local.access.restrictuntil2011-12-08en
local.school.graduationSchool of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciencesen
local.thesis.borndigitalyesen
local.search.authorZulfika, Sithy Fathimaen
local.search.supervisorSoliman, Izabelen
local.search.supervisorTamatea, Laurenceen
local.search.supervisorWare, Helenen
local.uneassociationYesen
local.year.conferred2009en
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