Linda Herrera is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Carlos Alberto Torres is Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the University of California at Los Angeles. His many books include Social Theory and Education: A Critique of Theories of Social and Cultural Reproduction (coauthored with Raymond Allen Morrow), also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Possibilities for Critical Education in the Arab WorldLinda Herrera and Carlos Alberto Torres 1. Islamization and Education: Between Politics, Profit, and PluralismLinda Herrera 2. The Production and Reproduction of Culture in Egyptian SchoolsKamal Naguib 3. Subsistence Education: Schooling in a Context of Urban PovertyAhmed Youssof Saad 4. A Great Vocation, a Modest Profession: Teachers’ Paths and Practices Iman Farag 5. What are Teachers Transmitting? Pedagogic Culture in Rural EgyptFadia Maugith 6. The Colors of Change: Participation and Praxis in Egyptian EducationLinda Herrera Conclusion: The Struggle for Democratic Education in the Arab WorldCarlos Alberto Torres ContributorsIndex

Linda Herrera is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Carlos Alberto Torres is Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the University of California at Los Angeles. His many books include Social Theory and Education: A Critique of Theories of Social and Cultural Reproduction (coauthored with Raymond Allen Morrow), also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Possibilities for Critical Education in the Arab WorldLinda Herrera and Carlos Alberto Torres 1. Islamization and Education: Between Politics, Profit, and PluralismLinda Herrera 2. The Production and Reproduction of Culture in Egyptian SchoolsKamal Naguib 3. Subsistence Education: Schooling in a Context of Urban PovertyAhmed Youssof Saad 4. A Great Vocation, a Modest Profession: Teachers’ Paths and Practices Iman Farag 5. What are Teachers Transmitting? Pedagogic Culture in Rural EgyptFadia Maugith 6. The Colors of Change: Participation and Praxis in Egyptian EducationLinda Herrera Conclusion: The Struggle for Democratic Education in the Arab WorldCarlos Alberto Torres ContributorsIndex