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. 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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... donors . The organizations also demonstrate how ' local ' solutions to development problems can be both sensitive to the specific historical circumstances of a community and attentive to the “ globally and na- tionally circulating ...
... donors . The organizations also demonstrate how ' local ' solutions to development problems can be both sensitive to the specific historical circumstances of a community and attentive to the “ globally and na- tionally circulating ...
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... donor- driven model of development that tends to offer the same solutions to disparate problems . The four NGOs ... donors because they see these connections as beneficial rather than detrimental to the long - term viability of the ...
... donor- driven model of development that tends to offer the same solutions to disparate problems . The four NGOs ... donors because they see these connections as beneficial rather than detrimental to the long - term viability of the ...
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... Donors , NGOs & the state : Governance & ' civil society ' in Tanzania . In O. Barrow and M. Jennings ( Eds . ) , The charitable impulse : NGOs and development in East and North- East Africa ( pp . 133–148 ) . Oxford : James Currey and ...
... Donors , NGOs & the state : Governance & ' civil society ' in Tanzania . In O. Barrow and M. Jennings ( Eds . ) , The charitable impulse : NGOs and development in East and North- East Africa ( pp . 133–148 ) . Oxford : James Currey and ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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