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In the mountains of the Northern Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan School and schooling are both symbolic of wider ranging cultural and political battles over morals, modernity, development, gender and the rule of law. Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century is about both the normative battles over the purpose of education, as well as about the structural impediments to providing instruction in those remote and challenging locations where it is attempted. The analytical frames in this collection come primarily from the social sciences and comparative education. Contributors examine education, policy, processes and structures in the broader socio-cultural, religious and economic context of three countries sharing somewhat similar colonial and post- colonial legacy and current uprising of extreme religious positions and a drive to social-cohesion.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
Dilshad Ashraf and Alan J. DeYoung
Chapter 1: Missing pieces: The case of girls' education in Tajikistan
Christopher Whitsel
Chapter 2: The militarization of Afghan women's learning in 'post-conflict' Afghanistan
Spogmai Akseer
Chapter 3: Girls education in Afghanistan: What works and why
Shama Dossa & Parveen Roy
Chapter 4: Islamic Education in post-Soviet Tajikistan: A field of contestations
Sarfaroz Niyozov, Hakim Elnazarov, and Sultonbek Aksakolov
Chapter 5: Religion and state in Pakistani education with special focus on mountainous regions
Jan-e-Alam Khaki
Chapter 6: Creating social cohesion through schooling in Pakistan's Swat Valley: One UNICEF approach
Parveen Roy and Alan DeYoung
Chapter 7: Building communities by building schools in the rural mountainous regions of Pakistan
Mir Afzal Tajik
Chapter 8: Narratives of Schooling during the Tajik Civil War (1992-97)
Carole Faucher
Chapter 9: Schooling and the Problem of Indigenous Cultural Identity in Baltistan
Zakir Hussain
Conclusion: Transforming Contested Education Terrains into Opportunities for Hope and Peace
Sarfaroz Niyozov & Jan-e-Alam Khaki
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