Madrasas And Ngos : Complements Or Substitutes? Non-State Providers And Growth In Female Education In Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad; Chaudhury, Nazmul

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-4511

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“…This is manifested through increased veiling (Rozario 2006) by women, the proliferation of madrasas, or religious schools, (Asadullah and Chaudhury 2008) amongst the poor and faithbased schools for the middle classes, as well as the advent of Islamic media. Anthropological accounts speak of creeping conservatism (Ellickson 2004) and a preference for text-based Islam (Gardener 1998).…”

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Negotiating Islam: Conservatism, Splintered Authority and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh

Huq¹

2010

IDS Bulletin

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Bangladesh has recently been seeing a rise in religiosity which has been treated as problematic, anti-secular and anti-progressive within the public sphere. Various writers describe this trend as having a disempowering effect on women and negating their self-expression. However, underlying these views is the assumption that the assertion of women's agency is not enough if it does not confront existing structures of relations. This article asks whether it is possible that in seeking changes in certain aspects of one's life, existing gender relations are not necessarily transformed, but indirectly challenged and reconfigured? The conclusion suggests that rather than a polarisation of the secular and religious ways of living most people are in fact in between, negotiating between the two camps, and borrowing ideas and ways from both.

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Negotiating Islam: Conservatism, Splintered Authority and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh

Huq¹

2010

IDS Bulletin

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The presence of religious organisations, religious attendance and earnings: Evidence from Indonesia

Permani

2011

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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Religious Schools, Social Values, and Economic Attitudes: Evidence from Bangladesh

Asadullah

Chaudhury

2010

World Development

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This paper examines the social impact of a madrasa (Islamic religious school) reform program in Bangladesh. The key features of the reform are change of the curriculum and introduction of female teachers. We assess whether the reform is making any contribution in improving social cohesion in rural areas. We use new data on teachers and female graduates from rural Bangladesh and explore how attitudes toward desired fertility, working mothers, higher education for girls vis-à-vis boys, and various political regimes vary across secondary schools and modernised madrasas. We find some evidence of attitudinal gaps by school type. Modernised religious education is associated with attitudes that are conducive to democracy. On the other hand, when compared to their secular schooled peers, madrasa graduates have perverse attitude on matters such as working mothers, desired fertility and higher education for girls. We also find that young people's attitudes are interlinked with that of their teachers. Exposure to female and younger teachers leads to more favourable attitudes among graduates. These estimated effects are robust to conditioning on a rich set of individual, family and school traits. We conclude by discussing other social and economic implications of these findings.

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Madrasas And Ngos : Complements Or Substitutes? Non-State Providers And Growth In Female Education In Bangladesh

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

Negotiating Islam: Conservatism, Splintered Authority and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh

Negotiating Islam: Conservatism, Splintered Authority and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh

The presence of religious organisations, religious attendance and earnings: Evidence from Indonesia

Religious Schools, Social Values, and Economic Attitudes: Evidence from Bangladesh

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