In this Third Volume of the series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, the volume continues with the previouslyestablished overarching purpose of publishing chapters that are based upon research conducted in those regions by scholars, many ofwhom are indigenous to the regions they write about and are, therefore, able to provide cultural insights about relevant issues, as well as nonindigenousscholars who have conducted their studies in countries within the regions or about those regions. This mixture of indigenousscholarship offering emic perspectives and outside scholarship offering etic perspectives continues to be a relative strength and uniquenessof this book series. In addition, several chapters in the current volume constitute collaborations between the authors etic and emic to the contextsabout which they write. This bifocality in the gaze cast upon issues covered in this book series has been well received by readers of earliervolumes of the series.