ICSLS 2005

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Encouraging Entrepreneurship Education and Development in Jaffna District
(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Sivaskaran, T.
Entrepreneurship contributes to the economy of a community in many ways. For the society and communities, entrepreneurship provides the means for achieving the level of diversity, innovation and independent decision-making required for the survival, development and freedom. Entrepreneurship education is becoming a component of new economic strategies for fostering job creation. The outcome of entrepreneurship education is emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs who create jobs not only for themselves, but also for others. Jaffna is part of Sri Lanka which is highly affected by war for the last twenty years. The one and the only environment opened for youngsters is educational environment. After finishing their education they expect job opportunities from the government. This suggests that there is an urgent and growing need to develop more indigenous enterprises primarily to provide more employment opportunities for the young people. The present study was conducted taking randomly selected 100 graduates and 100 dropout students in Advance Level classes to examine to what extent they have an idea to start a new business rather than searching a job in the government sector. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and were analysed simple ratio analysis. The findings indicate that the problem youngsters who live in Jaffna face is unemployment. So, increased efforts and support to foster entrepreneurship education and development are certainly important solutions to help overcome this problem.
Impact of Student-Teacher Relationships on the Crisis at University of Sri Jayewardenepura: Student Perspective -Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce
(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Wedage, D.M.; Gunathilake, P.D.H.D.
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJP) experienced the most sorrowful incidents in the recent past, when two undergraduates were killed within the university premises. These killings were due to clashes between the two student groups that were holding opposing views. Accordingly USJP at present faces a crisis situation. Literature indicates that “a crisis is anything that has the potential to negatively affect the reputation or credibility of an organization. All major crises are caused by a combination of technical/ economic and human/social factors”. As revealed by the study carried out by Weerakoon et. al. (2004), lack of sound student –teacher relationships was one of the major reasons that gave rise to the crisis at USJP. This study, considering the human/social factors causing a crisis, attempts to identify the impact of student-teacher relationships on the crisis, through the eyes of the students of Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce (FMSC). FMSC is the largest faculty of the university system and it holds the reputation as the centre of excellence in the management education in Sri Lanka. It is now at a stake because of the violent behaviour of students. Hence the sample was drawn from among the students of FMSC. Both primary and secondary data have been used in this study. Data collection tools used were questionnaire and interview. Questionnaires distributed among a random sample of 180 students addressed the aspects such as the nature of sound studentteacher relationship, present status of such relationships at the faculty, degree of importance of relationships towards eruption and prevalence of the crisis and possibility of using such relationships to resolve the crisis. Interviews covered almost the same aspects.
The Effect of Western Colonization on ‘School Cultures’ and its Impact on Learning and Teaching English
(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Perera, M.
It has been argued that any classroom methodology to be appropriate it needs to be ‘culture sensitive’ (Holliday, 1994). Further, it is also claimed that ‘culture sensitivity’ needs to be realized through ethnographic action research. This paper examines the influence of western colonization on Education in Sri Lanka and as a result how different ‘school cultures’ developed. Next, based on the findings of observational case studies of two schools the paper examines how the different school cultures provided opportunities for learning English. Finally, the implications of the different ‘school cultures’ on learning English is discussed and the challenges for the future learning teaching process are identified.

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