ISBN:
9780520299528
,
9780520299511
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 230 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Childs, Geoff H., 1963- author From a trickle to a torrent
DDC:
306.43095496
Keywords:
Education Social aspects
;
Social change
;
Educational mobility
;
Nepal
;
Nubri
;
Bildung
;
Mobilität
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
"What happens to a community when the majority of young people move away for education? In Nubri, an ethnic Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal, educational migration (the sending of children to distant institutions for schooling) has become a key component of a family management strategy that is driven by the prospect of social and economic rewards but that entails risk, uncertainty, and unforeseen consequences. The authors draw on ethnographic, demographic, and historical research to document how long-standing religious connections shape contemporary migrations, and how population growth disparities open new schooling opportunities for Buddhist highlanders. They examine parents' motives for sacrificing household labor in favor or sending children to distant schools and monasteries, a trend encapsulated in the oft-repeated phrase "better a pen in hand than a rope across the forehead." The book concludes by investigating dilemmas associated with educational migration, including intergenerational skirmishes over marriage and household succession, threats to the family-based care system for the elderly, and a decline in the level of agricultural production needed to support local religious activities. Better a Pen in Hand chronicles a convergence of demographic and social processes that have led a Himalayan society to the brink of irreversible change."--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Predicaments, presumptions, and procedures -- Moving in before moving out -- Embedding the household in the village -- Whither the young people? -- Becoming monks -- Becoming nuns -- Becoming students -- The household succession quandary -- The transformative potential of educational migration -- Nubri futures?
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-223. - Index
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