This research volume has been compiled with the aim of bringing together multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on the complex relationship between education and poverty by drawing on the most recent graduate student research from across Columbia University . Since both poverty and education are individually so central within the field of international development, it is only appropriate that this journal try to link those two themes. The authors impressively demonstrate the extent to which these issues cut across transnational and academic borders. The world is becoming smaller every day, and increasingly those involved in the field of international development could benefit from an exchange of new viewpoints and timely information such as this.
This volume is the fourth in a series of graduate student research published by the Society for International Education. Publication of this volume was made possible through grants from The Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies, Teachers College, Columbia University and the Teachers College Student Senate.