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Betting on Education: The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth

Betting on Education: The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth

Estes, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Rutgers Childhood Studies

General EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1978844581
ISBN13: 9781978844582
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Educational credentials are one of the most reliable tickets to a middle-class livelihood across the globe today. But as the costs of schooling rise, young people increasingly wonder whether their investment will pay off. Betting on Education: The Costs of Schooling for Cambodian Youth follows the experiences of rural secondary school students navigating Cambodia's semiprivatized state education system. It reveals that when students are compelled to speculate about the value of their education, the winners of this gamble are the ones already most securely part of the middle class. The rest are left behind. In the process, the very meaning of education is transformed, as schooling becomes less about learning and more about its potential financial returns. By situating these stories in the wider global logics of neoliberal capitalism, Betting on Education challenges readers to consider what is at stake when young people must wager so much on the promise of schooling.

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