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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... Kilimanjaro Region of northern Tanzania . On the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro , Miti is one of eight villages in the former chiefdom of Old Moshi.1 There are several theories about how this chiefdom got its name ( Stahl , 1964 ) ...
... Kilimanjaro Region of northern Tanzania . On the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro , Miti is one of eight villages in the former chiefdom of Old Moshi.1 There are several theories about how this chiefdom got its name ( Stahl , 1964 ) ...
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... Kilimanjaro Region was privileged in many ways . Although the region constitutes only 5 % of the total population , it hosts 9 % of the students enrolled in public secondary schools and 21 % of the students attending private secondary ...
... Kilimanjaro Region was privileged in many ways . Although the region constitutes only 5 % of the total population , it hosts 9 % of the students enrolled in public secondary schools and 21 % of the students attending private secondary ...
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... Kilimanjaro Region , and Among Secondary School Students in the Study , 1996 Questionnaire3 Resource Mainland Tanzania Kilimanjaro Region 1996 Students Indoor water 12 % 13 % 72 % Electricity 12 % 21 % 54 % Television 3 % 3 % 25 ...
... Kilimanjaro Region , and Among Secondary School Students in the Study , 1996 Questionnaire3 Resource Mainland Tanzania Kilimanjaro Region 1996 Students Indoor water 12 % 13 % 72 % Electricity 12 % 21 % 54 % Television 3 % 3 % 25 ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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