ICH 2016
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Item Promoting Cave Tourism in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Rathnayake, S.Cave tourism is an environmental based tourism product. It means exploring natural caves and tunnels. It is also known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom. Speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment. Cave tourism can be named as a part of sport and adventure tourism. There are many caves in Sri Lanka which have pre-historical and natural values. Pahiyangala, Batadombalena, Belilena, Waulpane, Rawana Ella are some examples. Though there are many caves in Sri Lanka, promoting these caves for tourism is at a very low level. But many countries such as Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia, promote cave tourism for tourist industry. The main objective of this study was to identify the potential for promoting cave tourism in Sri Lanka. Research was based on both primary sources including interviews while secondary sources included web sites, books and those qualitative data were analyzed to arrive at the conclusions. Inclusion of cave tourism for tour packages of travel agencies, developing hotel promotions of caving, government and private sector involvement, raising awareness of heritage managers, developing visitor related facilities and introducing proper management plan are the recommendations for promoting cave tourism in Sri Lanka in future.Item Including all: Perceptions of mainstream teachers on inclusive education in the Western Province of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Hettiarachchi, S.; Das, A.; Ranaweera, M.; Attanayake, L.D.; Walisundara, D.The changes made to the local constitution (Parliament of Sri Lanka, 1997), the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN, 2005) in 2016 and the first World Report on Disability (WHO, 2011) support a new era for the education of children with disabilities in Sri Lanka. The emphasis of this legislation is the inclusion and full participation of students with disabilities in regular schools. It guarantees non-discrimination and removal of barriers, both physical and psychological or attitudinal; to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities into regular schools. It urges policy makers, educators, parents and other service providers to consider the premise that special education should be seen not in the context of separate education but as an integral part of regular education. Arguably, the success of implementing a policy of inclusive education requires mainstream school teachers to understand, accept and be competent at supporting students with disabilities within the mainstream classroom context. To uncover perceptions of ‘inclusive education’ among mainstream teachers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 mainstream teachers from the Western Province using a topic guide. Thematic coding of the interview data was undertaken using the key principles of Framework Analysis (Ritchie & Spencer, 1994). The main themes to emerge were of incongruous conceptual understandings, fear of incompetence, limited training facilities and the lack of incentives. These findings will be discussed with regard to its implications for policy and practice. The results underpin the need to consider local teacher perceptions and to address these concerns within pre-service and in-service training in order to support the establishment of education reforms, which are relevant and sensitive to the cultural needs and cognizant of local realities.Item A study on the regression of the logo design industry of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Amarakoon, A.Since the advent of the computer technology in the graphic design industry in Sri Lanka, there is a considerable decrease in the visual and aesthetic quality of the logos designed by commercial logo designers, which implies the application of the low level of skills in both conceptualization and execution. These logos are mostly derivative work, if not complete rip offs of logos that can be found on the internet. Lack of originality, the use of over-used shapes or motifs, lack of pragmatic concerns are the most apparent drawbacks of the currently prevailing logo designs. The particular trend reflects the discontinuance of the fluid way and creative thinking of the Sri Lankan visual artists and the designers (of the pre-digital era) who have created unique and memorable logo concepts for both state and commercial entities which evoke the desired feelings in the target audience. The significance of this conceptualization is the attention and the enthusiasm paid by the artist by means of maintaining a well-established Sri Lankan identity in the design industry. The aim of the present study is therefore to examine the problems which affect the visual and aesthetic quality of the logo design industry within the context of Sri Lanka. The study will focus to conduct an empirical inquiry which relies on personal experience as a graphic designer and on the online presence of commercial logo designers based in Sri Lanka. Three main factors affecting the visual and aesthetic quality of the logo designs in question, namely the client’s perception of his own requirement, the restrictive nature of the digital tools in the design process, and the fact that the logo design is treated as a subordinate element equally by the clients and many commercial logo designers in Sri Lanka, can be identified.Item The De-Facto status of the implementation of the official languages policy in police stations of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wickramasinghe, D.D.The police in any given country are the guardian of the law and trust who is vested with the responsibility of maintaining public peace. Thus, they are expected to deal with the public more often than any another government official in their day today duties. The communication between the concerned parties and the police personnel is of pivotal importance in this regard – as such meditations are always interrelated with the factors pertaining to offences, law, and justice. Thus the need to be accountable, transparency is essentially woven in the language that is being used to converse with the concerned parties. Sri Lanka as a multi-lingual state declared its bilingual official languages status in its 13 th amendment to the constitution granting the equal parity for both Sinhala and Tamil languages after many contentious struggles over the years. Today, the state intuitions thus abide to offer their service to the public in the respective official languages – especially in the bilingual zones designated by the government taking into account the demographic census. It is in this light the current study concentrates on the implementation of the official languages policy in the Sri Lankan Police stations which play a crucial role in the process of the reconciliation in the post-war Sri Lanka. The study takes into account the linguistic landscape of Sri Lanka where the police stations are randomly selected out of the cluster sample of 72 bilingual divisional secretariats of the country (41 Gazetted & 31 recommended to be gazetted based upon the 20% of minority or more living in the respective divisional secretariats). The data for the study was obtained through the primary unprocessed data accumulated by the Official Languages Commission of Sri Lanka through official language physical audits that include onsite observations. The findings reveal that the implementation of the official languages policy in Sri Lankan Police Stations in the designated linguistic landscape (bilingual divisional secretariats) is ineffective in terms of the visibility and ambience and service delivery to the public due to the reasons stemming out from the lack of awareness/disregard of the official language policy and the related circulars, dearth of the police officers competent in the other official language, lack of in-station facilities to comply with the policy and the absence of a proper institutional mechanism to implement the official language policy.