The Changing Function of Education in Pakistan 1970–2014

• In Event: 46.029 - State Policy and the Education of the Masses: International Perspectives

Abstract

In March of 1963, Alan Peshkin published a paper in the History of Education Quarterly on the shaping of education in Pakistan. Peshkin examined the lasting influence of British colonization on the thinking of educators in Pakistan, and the broader educational aspirations of the Pakistani people within the broader context of Pakistan society. He detailed the education reform plans developed in the pro-independence era of India, and the circumstances stemming from the partition of the Indo/Pakistan subcontinent along with the political and economic factors influencing educational reforms in Pakistan. My work and the proposed presentation seek to build on the work of Peshkin, and examine the contemporary contours of the Pakistani education system.

Author

• David J. Roof, Ball State University