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The Cultural Construction of Motives for Higher Education in Contemporary Cambodia
The Cultural Construction of Motives for Higher Education in Contemporary Cambodia
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105201
- ISBN
- 9798297644373
- DDC
- 301
- 저자명
- Akada, Takuya.
- 서명/저자
- The Cultural Construction of Motives for Higher Education in Contemporary Cambodia
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Indiana University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 294 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Hallett, Timothy;Levinson, Bradley.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Since embracing economic and political liberalization in the early 1990s, Cambodia has experienced rapid economic growth and an expansion of higher education. Yet despite their aspirations, many graduates struggle to find employment that justifies their investment. This paradox is especially evident in business fields, which attract the majority of students but are oversaturated, while STEM fields remain under-enrolled despite their rhetorical importance.This dissertation investigates why students continue to pursue higher education despite its limited economic returns. Using institutional theory, it conceptualizes higher education as an institutionalized mythology-a culturally legitimized belief that education leads to a better life. This belief is grounded in the liberal modern ideal of individual agency and actorhood, where individuals enact scripted roles within the framework of liberal modernity.The dissertation comprises three articles (Chapters 3-5). Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical framework, and Chapter 2 provides a historical overview of educational development in Cambodia from the pre-colonial era to the present. Chapter 3, based on historical, policy, and media sources, traces how higher education became institutionalized as a pathway to social mobility, showing how the state promotes education as a means of advancement while shifting responsibility for success onto individuals, thereby reinforcing neoliberal values. Chapters 4 and 5 draw on 104 interviews with university students in Phnom Penh. Chapter 4 analyzes how students uphold the institutionalized mythology of higher education through three interrelated sensemaking processes: valorization, meritocratization, and responsibilization. These narratives help students justify their aspirations amid structural disjuncture. Chapter 5 investigates students' major choices, revealing two contrasting logics, assertive individualism and pragmatic conformity, which contribute to uneven growth across disciplines.Together, these findings show how higher education endures as a powerful cultural ideal, even when disconnected from economic realities. This dissertation demonstrates how students, as seemingly autonomous actors, reproduce the institutionalized mythology of higher education, thus reinforcing its central role in modern Cambodian society.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- Higher education
- 일반주제명
- Educational sociology
- 일반주제명
- Social studies education
- 키워드
- Actorhood
- 키워드
- Cambodia
- 키워드
- Cultural ideal
- 키워드
- STEM fields
- 키워드
- Modernization
- 기타저자
- Indiana University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aSince embracing economic and political liberalization in the early 1990s, Cambodia has experienced rapid economic growth and an expansion of higher education. Yet despite their aspirations, many graduates struggle to find employment that justifies their investment. This paradox is especially evident in business fields, which attract the majority of students but are oversaturated, while STEM fields remain under-enrolled despite their rhetorical importance.This dissertation investigates why students continue to pursue higher education despite its limited economic returns. Using institutional theory, it conceptualizes higher education as an institutionalized mythology-a culturally legitimized belief that education leads to a better life. This belief is grounded in the liberal modern ideal of individual agency and actorhood, where individuals enact scripted roles within the framework of liberal modernity.The dissertation comprises three articles (Chapters 3-5). Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical framework, and Chapter 2 provides a historical overview of educational development in Cambodia from the pre-colonial era to the present. Chapter 3, based on historical, policy, and media sources, traces how higher education became institutionalized as a pathway to social mobility, showing how the state promotes education as a means of advancement while shifting responsibility for success onto individuals, thereby reinforcing neoliberal values. Chapters 4 and 5 draw on 104 interviews with university students in Phnom Penh. Chapter 4 analyzes how students uphold the institutionalized mythology of higher education through three interrelated sensemaking processes: valorization, meritocratization, and responsibilization. These narratives help students justify their aspirations amid structural disjuncture. Chapter 5 investigates students' major choices, revealing two contrasting logics, assertive individualism and pragmatic conformity, which contribute to uneven growth across disciplines.Together, these findings show how higher education endures as a powerful cultural ideal, even when disconnected from economic realities. This dissertation demonstrates how students, as seemingly autonomous actors, reproduce the institutionalized mythology of higher education, thus reinforcing its central role in modern Cambodian society.
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■653 ▼aCultural ideal
■653 ▼aSTEM fields
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■653 ▼aModernization
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17359705▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
