ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some cultural factors in childhood disability and education, based on 12 years of resource development work at Peshawar, Pakistan, for children with disabilities (Miles, M., 1990). The format will be similar to that of other chapters, and will consider two further notions:
that child-rearing in Pakistan has not received the level of public and academic scrutiny now common in Europe and North America;
that special education concepts and practice imported from the West do not engage well with concepts of childhood and child-rearing common in Pakistan.
