The paper analyses the context in which education in Aceh acts strategically to advance an
agenda of social transformation. Applying a cultural, political economy analytical framework,
it identifies ways in which education is embedded in key cultural, political, economic and
social struggles at present. They include:(1) the redistribution of educational opportunities
and access;(2) ambiguous spaces for democratic representation in a decentralised
educational structure;(3) competing notions of how diversity is acknowledged within …