Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan

Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century

Dilshad Ashraf, Mir Afzal Tajik, Sarfaroz Niyozov

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781498505345
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Missing Pieces
• The Militarization of Afghan Women’s Learning in “Postconflict” Afghanistan
• Girls’ Education in Afghanistan: Complexities of Context and the Need for Innovation
• Islamic Education in Post-Soviet Tajikistan
• Religion and State in Pakistan
• Creating Social Cohesion through Schooling in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
• Building Communities by Building Schools in the Rural, Mountainous Regions of Pakistan
• Narratives of Schooling during the Tajik Civil War (1992–1997)
• Schooling and Cultural Identity in Baltistan
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors