ESL curriculum with a heuristic anchorage: Tokenist discourses and the epistemology of community service education

Abstract

Community service education (CSE) in developing countries still remains under-represented in research.

Contemporary dynamics in religious practices: Community multiple embeddedness and conflicting encounters between Buddhist monks and the laity in Sri Lanka.

“…Endowed with a rich cultural heritage, it gained independence from the British administration in 1948. Indisputably, and not surprisingly too, the postindependence Sri Lanka has witnessed more interethnoreligious conflicts than interethnoreligious cooperation and peace, and the latter has often been confined to tokenist discourses (Chandrasoma, 2021; Grant, 2009). However, when this article was being revised in July 2022, a new wave of hope emerged from a group of predominantly young people including monks clamoring for an immediate end to gross mismanagement of the economy and the rampant corrupt practices of some politicians in Sri Lanka.…”