Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in TanzaniaDesire and Decline explores the privileged place of education in local, national, and global development discourses about population, HIV/AIDS, and environmental conservation. ĞDesireğ signals the global consensus on the view that education is central to solving problems of development. ĞDeclineğ, 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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a The culture - as - cause perspective presents an even more simplified view of culture because it divorces the cultural dimensions of population and health from the political - economic ones . For instance , the World Bank's policy on ...
a The culture - as - cause perspective presents an even more simplified view of culture because it divorces the cultural dimensions of population and health from the political - economic ones . For instance , the World Bank's policy on ...
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The problems that these NGOs are addressing are local , but they are global as well , and they demand international action to ... health indicators fall even further if coffee prices on global commodity markets do not stabilize .
The problems that these NGOs are addressing are local , but they are global as well , and they demand international action to ... health indicators fall even further if coffee prices on global commodity markets do not stabilize .
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... to Third World countries and an easing of the conditionalities placed on structural adjustment loans ( see Chapter 4 ) . He notes : Relatively small amounts of money could make enormous differences in promoting health and literacy .
... to Third World countries and an easing of the conditionalities placed on structural adjustment loans ( see Chapter 4 ) . He notes : Relatively small amounts of money could make enormous differences in promoting health and literacy .
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Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania Volume 13 of Society and politics in Africa, ISSN 1083-3323 |
| Author | Frances Katherine Vavrus |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Nov 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820463116, 9780820463117 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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