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

Lyon, S.M.

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: Sep 8, 2008
• 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.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1600806
• Publisher URL: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/aia/index.php