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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... NGOs discussed in this chapter are not immune from the problems scholars have identified for other voluntary associations , such as insufficient accountability to their constituencies , oligarchic governance by group leaders , or ...
... NGOs discussed in this chapter are not immune from the problems scholars have identified for other voluntary associations , such as insufficient accountability to their constituencies , oligarchic governance by group leaders , or ...
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... NGOs more attractive to the government , and their numbers began to climb steadily . By the mid - 1990s , there were more than 800 registered NGOs , and the current figure is in the thousands ( Kelsall , 2001 ; United Republic of ...
... NGOs more attractive to the government , and their numbers began to climb steadily . By the mid - 1990s , there were more than 800 registered NGOs , and the current figure is in the thousands ( Kelsall , 2001 ; United Republic of ...
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... NGOs and development in East and North - East Africa ( pp . 109–132 ) . Oxford : James Currey and Bloomfield , CT : Kumarian . Johnston , P. H. ( 1946 ) . Some notes on land tenure on Kilimanjaro and the vihamba of the Wachagga . Kili ...
... NGOs and development in East and North - East Africa ( pp . 109–132 ) . Oxford : James Currey and Bloomfield , CT : Kumarian . Johnston , P. H. ( 1946 ) . Some notes on land tenure on Kilimanjaro and the vihamba of the Wachagga . Kili ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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