Betting on Education : The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth / Jennifer Estes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estes, Jennifer.

Series:

Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cambodia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Educational credentials are one of the most reliable tickets to a middle-class livelihood across the globe today. But as the costs of schooling rise, young people increasingly wonder whether their investment will pay off. Betting on Education: The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth follows the experiences of rural secondary school students navigating Cambodia's semi-privatized state education system. It reveals that when students are compelled to speculate about the value of their education, the "winners" of this gamble are the ones already most securely part of the middle class. The rest are left behind. In the process, the very meaning of education is transformed, as schooling becomes less about learning and more about its potential financial returns. By situating these stories in the wider global logics of neoliberal capitalism, Betting on Education challenges readers to consider what is at stake when young people must wager so much on the promise of schooling"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hidden Costs : State Schools and Private Classes

Unequal Tracks : The Value of Science Versus Social Science

Speculative Investments : Students' Use of Time and Money

(Un)Fair Assessments : Cheating and the Promise of Meritocracy

Family Ties : Students' Trajectories and Relations of Interdependency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Estes, Jennifer Betting on Education

ISBN:

9781978844605

OCLC:

1594452808