Lasni Buddhibhashika Jayasooriya

Living together in diversity: A comparative study of citizenship education curricula in Sri Lanka and Australia Recent debates on citizenship education centre on how best to foster inclusivity amidst diversity, and whether a common core of citizenship education can be universally applied. This paper examines...

New paper!!!
In this paper, we explore how Australia and Sri Lanka approach diversity, democracy, and human rights through their citizenship education curricula. We focused on the ‘why’ behind different national approaches, rather than which country is ‘winning’

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There are also concerns about role of language in healing and peace building. This is something I am expecting to discuss in my future work.

Thanks. There were couple of things including what I found out interviewing people who actually lived through the introduction of 1956 official language act and how Tamil communities particularly elites responded to it and how that actually affected their individual and home language policies.

The trilingual dream of post-war Sri Lanka Purpose. Language issues play a key role in Sri Lanka’s post-war reconciliation, having contributed to past ethnic conflicts. Therefore, as a country still striving for post-war reconciliation, unders...

How successful is the trilingual policy in Sri Lanka? What can post-conflict multicultural contexts do to promote social cohesion and linguistic harmony?

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Human Rights Education and Global Citizenship: an analysis of Sri Lankan Civic Education curricula Human Rights Education (HRE) is crucial for Sri Lanka, having endured a 26-year-long civil war and various violent experiences arising from ethnic, religious and political tensions. In the context ...

My recent paper on “Human Rights Education and Global Citizenship” discusses issues pertaining to human rights education in state sector schools in Sri Lanka through an analysis of civic education textbooks drawing from research elsewhere and relevant theories.
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Bilingual education and identity politics in post-war Sri Lanka Multilingualism is widely celebrated as a quality that education should promote for purposes of peacebuilding, inter-cultural understanding and the fostering of transferable skills. But the experie...

Shout out to a paper published earlier this year 🙌
This paper discusses how Bilingual Education policies in Sri Lanka has influenced identities of teachers and students therefore their impact on education in general and social harmony.

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Delighted to be publishing this, HRER’s first article focusing on #SriLanka
Hoping to publish many more!
@hrer.bsky.social has an open call for papers
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