The political economy of schooling in cambodia issues of quality and equity editors kitamura y edwards jr and comparative and international development education it is certainly an exceedingly valuable contribution filling a huge gap in the literature and providing a comprehensive in depth research based portrait of contemporary education in post conflict cambodia gerald w . Cambodia for this the political economy of schooling in cambodia issues of quality and equity aims at the following objectives 1 to place the progress of the cambodian education system in long term context 2 to trace the development of cambodian education from the time of. Education cambodia international development higher education education policy private tutoring shadow education student centered pedagogy teachers students with disabilities equity quality dropout diversity education education policy education reform educational governance gender governance higher education political economy research school . The political economy of schooling in cambodia presents a detailed portrait of the education system in cambodia in addition to contextualizing the development of education in cambodia from a long term historical perspective the book addresses issues such as the local enactment of student centered pedagogies the lived experiences of students and teachers challenges to achieving literacy . In addition to contextualizing the development of education in cambodia from a long term historical perspective the book addresses such issues as the local enactment of student centered