From a Trickle to a Torrent : Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Childs, Geoff H., 1963- (Author), Choedup, Namgyal (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social change.
Educational mobility.
Education > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Mobilite educationnelle > Nepal > Nubri.
Educational mobility > Nepal > Nubri.
Social change > Nepal > Nubri.
Education > Social aspects > Nepal > Nubri.
Nepal > Nubri.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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