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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... desire for schooling among individuals who are often not privy to documents produced at meetings in Rio , Cairo , or Washington , D.C. One of the differences between this study of schooling and the ones cited in the paragraph above is ...
... desire for schooling among individuals who are often not privy to documents produced at meetings in Rio , Cairo , or Washington , D.C. One of the differences between this study of schooling and the ones cited in the paragraph above is ...
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... desire for school- ing — and not primarily the content of the formal curriculum — that is driving down the fertility rate in the Kilimanjaro Region ( Chapter 3 ) and driving up the risk of HIV / AIDS among young women who cannot afford ...
... desire for school- ing — and not primarily the content of the formal curriculum — that is driving down the fertility rate in the Kilimanjaro Region ( Chapter 3 ) and driving up the risk of HIV / AIDS among young women who cannot afford ...
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... desire ; schooling , they hoped , would keep them from this plight by ena- bling them to get jobs and raise their few children without a husband in the household should this become necessary . The consistency in young women's ...
... desire ; schooling , they hoped , would keep them from this plight by ena- bling them to get jobs and raise their few children without a husband in the household should this become necessary . The consistency in young women's ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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