“Doing-ethnicity” – Tamil educational organizations as socio-cultural and political actors

2015

The article focuses on Tamil schools abroad that are part of the Tamil Education Development Council (TEDC), and on their construction of ethno-national belongings. By presenting the TEDC geographical, contextual and organizational structures, the article explains how education organizations form a transnational space where the organizations reinforce and recreate ethno-national orientations and belongings, which in turn reconstructs the Tamil diaspora itself through processes of standardization and homogenization.

Tamil Diaspora Schools—Ethnic-National Education in a Transnational Space

2012

Transnational education: teaching and learning across borders: An introduction

2018

Transnational Education (TNE) combines two broad terms, “transnational” and “education.” The meaning and purpose of “education” has been forced to evolve to meet the needs of the early twenty-first...