Berkley Center

This case study focuses on several situations in Kenya, Senegal, and Cambodia where religious attitudes and actors are directly involved in specific challenges facing children, notably the roles that religious beliefs and religious communities play in appreciating the challenges of caring and acting to care for vulnerable children.

This case study examines Islamic education systems in Bangladesh and Senegal, focusing on how they fit within broader national education strategies and how reform proposals meet concerns both of national education authorities and of religious leaders and communities.