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Knowledge information in multicultural South Asia: Redefining education for the next generation

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Seneviratne S.

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2003

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Ethnic Studies Report

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Post-colonial institutional formation has turned out to be a traumatic experience for the South Asian region. The region as a whole is venturing along a painful path coming in to grips with the hard realities of social change, identities and access to resources and power in the post-colonial context. This process has strong undertones of political legitimation based on ethno-linguistic, ethno-religious and ethno-cultural identities while centrifugal forces are in motion at different levels. This crisis is best reflected in the secondary and higher education systems in South Asia. Some of the issues raised in education are: to what extent is our education system knowledge oriented? Is it capable of developing the intellectually oriented multicultural personality of the next generation? Do we even provide sufficient space for knowledge? Is knowledge per se a luxury for developing countries? Is our educational system parochial, inward looking and stagnant? Are we dependent on information technology as a quick fix-it solution in the new global culture imposed from above? Have we properly evaluated the role of the state and the private sector in education? Does our system of education sustain or destroy intellectual freedom? Our failure to find timely solutions to these questions has resulted in violent and anarchic responses from the next generation that is rapidly cultivating a bias towards social fascist and fundamentalist ideologies. Humanising education through the Liberal Arts is seen as one solution in the process of restructuring the future educational policy in multicultural South Asia. It is seen as a process that will sustain an intellectually independent next generation of South Asia who will represent the best traditions of humanistic values as global citizens. © ICES.

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