Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan (Postcolonial Studies in Education)

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Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan challenges the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. Situated in the post-structuralist feminist position, it argues that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women. Through a systematic examination of the educational discourse in Pakistan, Naseem argues that the educational discourse (through curricula, textbooks, and pedagogical practices) constitutes gendered identities and positions them in a way that exacerbates and intensifies inequalities between men and women on one hand and between the dominant and minority groups on the other. Gendered constitution and positioning of subjects also regulates the relationship between the subjects and the state in a way that women and minorities are excluded from the development and citizenship realms. Finally, Naseem uncovers the mechanisms through which the educational discourse in Pakistan constitutes a militant nationalism and militaristic nationalistic subjects.

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M. Ayaz Naseem is Associate Professor of Education at Concordia University in Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and international education from McGill University (Canada). His research interests include feminist theory and philosophy, post-structuralism, diversity in classroom, peace education, and democratic and citizenship education. Naseem has also taught at the Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in the departments of International Relations and Defense & Strategic Studies. He is the author and co-author of three books, including Scientism and Education which was chosen for the AESA Critics Choice Award 2009.