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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... asked to write short essays about some of the themes that had emerged from interviews , including maisha magumu , corporal punishment , and differences in the ' moral character ' of girls who do and do not attend secondary school . I ...
... asked to write short essays about some of the themes that had emerged from interviews , including maisha magumu , corporal punishment , and differences in the ' moral character ' of girls who do and do not attend secondary school . I ...
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... asked the participants to write about sig- nificant events that had occurred in their lives since 1996. They were ... asked specific questions about the secondary or technical school the child was now attending as well as about the ...
... asked the participants to write about sig- nificant events that had occurred in their lives since 1996. They were ... asked specific questions about the secondary or technical school the child was now attending as well as about the ...
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... asked this fellow directly : " Why do you do sexual intercourse which is against the law ? " The student didn't answer and went back to his point about the sanctity of life . Proposer # 2 asked this same student , “ Why do you have sex ...
... asked this fellow directly : " Why do you do sexual intercourse which is against the law ? " The student didn't answer and went back to his point about the sanctity of life . Proposer # 2 asked this same student , “ Why do you have sex ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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