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 49
... coffee waxed and waned depending on interna- tional markets , but by the beginning of World War I , there were a number of Chagga men involved in coffee production . There was also a group of men and a smaller group of women who had ...
... coffee waxed and waned depending on interna- tional markets , but by the beginning of World War I , there were a number of Chagga men involved in coffee production . There was also a group of men and a smaller group of women who had ...
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... coffee cooperative for Chagga farmers . In 1925 , Joseph Merinyo of Old Moshi assembled a group of Chagga coffee growers who had been elected by Chagga farmers throughout Kilimanjaro , and they formed the Kilimanjaro Na- tive Coffee ...
... coffee cooperative for Chagga farmers . In 1925 , Joseph Merinyo of Old Moshi assembled a group of Chagga coffee growers who had been elected by Chagga farmers throughout Kilimanjaro , and they formed the Kilimanjaro Na- tive Coffee ...
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... coffee farmers to uproot their coffee trees even to grow food crops dur- ing the drought of the mid - 1970s . Thus , wealthier Chagga farmers who could still afford farm supplies to grow both coffee and food crops did not suffer greatly ...
... coffee farmers to uproot their coffee trees even to grow food crops dur- ing the drought of the mid - 1970s . Thus , wealthier Chagga farmers who could still afford farm supplies to grow both coffee and food crops did not suffer greatly ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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