Myanmar has been undertaking education reforms since 2012. Tensions have arisen between central-level policymakers and teachers' union leaders regarding the implementation of some reforms. While this give-and-take between policymakers and teacher activists has been reported somewhat in the news media, the academic literature on these developments…

The centring of Muslim women in Islam resides in an intertwining historico-politico-theological narrative of gender reform, first promulgated in a seventh century revelation of the Qur'an. Significantly, the gains derived by the women of Islam's first community, have become lost in the dominance of contemporary androcentric-patriarchal…

A college professor has several interacting roles--as scholar, specialized technician, employed professional, and citizen. It is to the subject of the professor as citizen, or more precisely, as politico-social activist, that this paper is directed. Proceeding as a taxonomist, the author offers a tentative empirical classification of the positions…