Reviews Cambodia's educational development, characterized by a series of successive crises since the country's independence from France in 1953. Examines various approaches of development discourse to the educational crisis, and suggests that previous analyses of Cambodia's educational development have failed to recognize the tensions generated by…

Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian women have been expected to fulfill the traditional role of women under Islamic law while contributing to the modern needs of their country. Iranian women have access to a wide range of (gender-segregated) educational opportunities and are drawing on their relatively high levels of educational attainment to…

Historically, Islamic discourse excluded non-Islamic forms of knowledge and supported political power and social control. Recently, traditional Muslims seek hegemony over political, economic, and educational domains, and the arrest of secularization and modernization of knowledge. In Pakistan, Islamization and ideological education have…

Describes how social and economic conditions in Papua New Guinea in 1995 led to an emerging ambivalent attitude toward education among villagers. Illustrates how local conceptions of schooling changed when promised links between education and modernization went unfulfilled, leading villagers to valorize "traditional" identity and…

Among the Chaggas on Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), "too much schooling" is believed to drive students, particularly girls, to the brink of madness. Fieldwork investigated culturally embedded attitudes toward education and the social development of young men and women, focusing on maintenance of family relations, single-sex isolation in…