Many comparative education researchers have tackled the question of how we could understand the relationship between social and cultural contexts and education. Based on the criticisms of School Effectiveness research that prospered during the 1980s, researchers started to pay closer attention to the embeddedness of education in the broader contexts (e.g., Fuller & Clarke, 1994). [For the complete volume, "Reforming Pedagogy in Cambodia: Local Construction of Global Pedagogies. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects. Volume 62," see ED671925.]