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Putting social engineering on the back burner: teaching priorities in formal education in rural Punjab, Pakistan

Lyon, S.M.

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S.M. Lyon



Abstract

This paper argues that the state of education in rural areas of Pakistan indicate an urgent need for policies which will improve the poor performance of existing schools. Social engineering to address gender and class imbalances, laudable though this may be, is counter productive to the immediate need for an elevation in existing basic standards of education. To this end, this paper suggests that educational reforms which do not attempt to challenge popularly held notions of gender and status would produce successful results which might then pave the way for more ambitious programmes in future.

Citation

Lyon, S. (2004). Putting social engineering on the back burner: teaching priorities in formal education in rural Punjab, Pakistan. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 11(1), 35-44

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2004
Deposit Date Sep 8, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
Print ISSN 0967-201X
Electronic ISSN 1752-2285
Publisher Berghahn Journals
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 11
Issue 1
Pages 35-44
Keywords Development Anthropology, Education, Gender, Pakistan.
Publisher URL http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/aia/index.php

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Anthropology in action. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Lyon, S. M. (2004) 'Putting social engineering on the back burner : teaching priorities in formal education in rural Punjab, Pakistan.' , Anthropology in action., 11 (1), pp. 35-44 is available online at: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/aia/index.php





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