Western Education And Modernization In A Buddhist Village Of Bangladesh Microform A Case Study Of The Barua Community

Author : Bijoy P. Barua
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612916463
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Education and Modernization in a Buddhist Village of Bangladesh [microform] : a Case Study of the Barua Community written by Bijoy P. Barua and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a case study of a Buddhist village in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, this research examines the issues of Western education and modernization within the socio-political context of Bangladesh. This study exclusively focuses on the Barua community. It adopts an anti-colonial discursive framework. This framework offers both theoretical and practical responses to the issues of education and modernization. The anti-colonial approach acknowledges the value of local knowledge, cultural history and the daily life experiences of the people in understanding social reality. The research participants confirmed that the education they received is contradictory to the Buddhist culture and traditions. They reflected that the Buddhist educational values are different from the Western educational values. Furthermore, the participants mentioned that Buddhist education advocates the principles of compassion and generosity for the welfare of all creatures. It does not believe in domestication. The participants also stated that this scheme towards massive modernization tends to disconnect the Barua community from the practice of Buddhist ethics. They pointed out that the Western form of education pulled community members away from their own social environment and economy. This education created an image of Western materialistic ways of life as well as forced them to adopt the views of the dominant power in the name of modernization. The restoration of Buddhist ethics and educational values in the country is a great challenge for the minority Barua community. It was observed that their political representation was absent at the national level, although community resistance for social identity and cultural rights existed within the case study village.

Author : Bijoy P. Barua
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838317687
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Education and Modernization in a Buddhist Village written by Bijoy P. Barua and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a case study of a Buddhist village in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, this research examines the issues of Western education and modernization within the socio-political context of Bangladesh. This study exclusively focuses on the Barua community. It adopts the analytical model of discursive framework. This framework offers both theoretical and practical responses to the issues of education and modernization through an anti- colonial approach. This approach acknowledges the value of local knowledge, cultural history and the daily life experiences of the people.

Author : Aparna Chatterjee
Publisher : Shhalaj Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9350184427
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barua Buddhists written by Aparna Chatterjee and published by Shhalaj Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do the Baruas stand in Buddhist religious universe? Could they be categorized as Bengali Buddhists? Such intriguing questions are addressed headlong here and answers are ferreted out of the troves of history. A large swathe of these frankly devout people is now found settled in and around Siliguri town, a gateway to the North-Eastern hinterland. But their antecedents are immensely spectacular, yet problematic. As settlers, how far their religious moorings carry them through the alienated environs of a majoritarian Hindu society? How proficient they are in border maintenance and syncretism? This ethnographic study of Bengali Barua Buddhists gives the reader a critical insight into everyday sociological practices of these struggling survivors of an ancient religion.

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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Author : Victor Sōgen Hori
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700715572
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Buddhism in the West written by Victor Sōgen Hori and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a series of thematically arranged articles written by contemporary scholars of Buddhism throughout North America.

Author : Sue Erica Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462094160
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Voices in School written by Sue Erica Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TCSE-Smith, blurb (final 9 August 2013) There are 400 million Buddhists in the world. Buddhists in Australia make up 3% of the population. So why have Buddhists had so little to say about educating youth? And, can Buddhism survive in Australia without educating youth? Sue Smith in Buddhist Voices in School answers why Buddhists are reluctant to ‘go public’ on education, and how Buddhism has much to offer the critical area of enhancing the wellbeing of young people. Here she distinguishes spiritual education from religion. Using case studies of Buddhist classes in primary schools Smith shows how a community adapted Buddha-Dharma to fit with contemporary education. The book describes how Social and Emotional Learning, inquiry and experiential approaches to education fit well with the intentions of Buddhism. In these classes students learned to meditate and explored ethics through a lively selection of Jataka tales. Voices from a Buddhist community, state school teachers, parents and also students inform the narrative of this book. It is the students themselves that reveal over time how they have developed calm, focus, kindness, resilience and better ability to make choices through their participation. The author concludes that the principles and techniques used in this program make potent contributions to current pedagogy. This book will be of great value to educators, academics and all those who have interest in Buddhism and who care about how children are educated.

Author : Bijoy P. Barua
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Non-formal Education and Grassroots Development written by Bijoy P. Barua and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the case study of Gono Unnayan Prochesta (GUP), Voluntary Organization (VO) operating in rural southwestern Bangladesh, this thesis explores the role of non-formal education for empowerment and socio-economic development. The issues examined are the mobilization process and the grassroots organization of disadvantaged women, education for regenerative agriculture, functional literacy and women's health. The case study focuses mainly on two womens groups. During the field work part of the study, most men were away from the villages in pursuit of salaried jobs or carrying out their small trades. The study adopted the framework of analysis proposed by Moser (1993) about the productive, reproductive and community roles of women in the context of their practical and strategic needs. The data indicates that due to the extreme poverty situation in the study area, addressing practical needs is considered more urgent by the women who were interviewed. Furthermore, they indicated that the center-based functional literacy training is less effective than the home-based training related to health and agriculture issues. It also was observed that the gosthi (lineage) shanskriti (cultural) and para (neighborhood) identities are essential elements in mobilizing the women's groups in the villages. After 25 years of GUP's activities, grassroots women's organizations are yet to be self-sustaining in the villages of Rajoir. The women participants in this study understand the importance of learning how to sign their names for access to small loans, although they indicate that further functional literacy does not meet their immediate practical needs. They are aware of the value of literacy and formal education for their children. Even then, the immediate projects they finance with small credits and loans available to them are still distributed alone traditional gender roles; seed money for starting small businesses for their sons or dowry needs.

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Download or read book Non-formal Education and Grassroots Development, a Case Study from Rural Bangladesh written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mihir Kumar Roy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross Cultural Community in Bangladesh, a Study of Amua written by Mihir Kumar Roy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas A. Borchert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824875657
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book Educating Monks written by Thomas A. Borchert and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating Monks examines a minority Buddhist community in Sipsongpanna, a region located on China's southwest border with Myanmar and Laos. Its people, the Dai-lue, are "double minorities": They are recognized by the Chinese state as part of a minority group, and they practice Theravada Buddhism, a minority form within China, where Mahayana Buddhism is the norm. Theravada has long been the primary training ground for Dai-lue men, and since the return of Buddhism to the area in the years following Mao Zedong's death, the Dai-lue have put many of their resources into providing monastic education for their sons. However, the author's analysis of institutional organization within Sipsongpanna, the governance of religion there, and the movements of monks (revealing the "ethnoscapes" that the monks of Sipsongpanna participate in) points to educational contexts that depend not just on local villagers, but also resources from the local (Communist) government and aid form Chinese Mahayana monks and Theravada monks from Thailand and Myanmar. While the Dai-lue monks draw on these various resources for the development of the sangha, they do not share the same agenda and must continually engage in a careful political dance between villagers who want to revive traditional forms of Buddhism, a Chinese state that is at best indifferent to the continuation of Buddhism, and transnational monks that want to import their own modern forms of Buddhism into the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Dai-lue monks in China, Thailand, and Singapore, this ambitious and sophisticated study will find a ready audience among students and scholars of the anthropology of Buddhism, and religion, education, and transnationalism in Southeast and East Asia. Book jacket.