Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in TanzaniaP. Lang, 2003 - 168 pages Desire and Decline explores the privileged place of education in local, national, and global development discourses about population, HIV/AIDS, and environmental conservation. «Desire» signals the global consensus on the view that education is central to solving problems of development. «Decline», on the other hand, draws attention to the growing gap between those who have access to basic social services - such as education - and those who do not. Based on multiple periods of fieldwork on Mount Kilimanjaro, Frances Vavrus links local and global narratives about the potential of education to enhance development but also reveals its limitations in postcolonial countries experiencing the pressures of globalization. Vavrus concludes with portraits of local development initiatives that leave readers with a clear sense of the complexity of education's role in development, and the importance of political economic analysis for global population, health, and environmental policy. |
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Page 52
... Chagga leaders for more schools for boys and girls were not always heard by colonial officials , who often were attending to other political and financial concerns . In Old Moshi , Chief Abraham , a descendent of Chief Rindi , actively ...
... Chagga leaders for more schools for boys and girls were not always heard by colonial officials , who often were attending to other political and financial concerns . In Old Moshi , Chief Abraham , a descendent of Chief Rindi , actively ...
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... Chagga children attended . Still , it angered many Chagga that the government refused to make the Central School in Old Moshi into a senior secondary school by adding Standards 11 and 12 to the existing course of study ( Rogers , 1972 ) ...
... Chagga children attended . Still , it angered many Chagga that the government refused to make the Central School in Old Moshi into a senior secondary school by adding Standards 11 and 12 to the existing course of study ( Rogers , 1972 ) ...
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... Chagga to move down to populate them . These efforts largely failed , however , because even the poorest households didn't need , or feel that they needed , the services the government was offering . On the mountain they had their ...
... Chagga to move down to populate them . These efforts largely failed , however , because even the poorest households didn't need , or feel that they needed , the services the government was offering . On the mountain they had their ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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