Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education

by Pia Jolliffe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137572175
• ISBN13: 9781137572172
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"