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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The British administration temporarily banned the building of new furrows in 1923 due to water problems European farmers were having on the plains below , but this policy did not last long because officials recognized that irrigation ...
The British administration temporarily banned the building of new furrows in 1923 due to water problems European farmers were having on the plains below , but this policy did not last long because officials recognized that irrigation ...
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( Mbali focus group , June 11 , 2001 ) Upon further discussion , it became clear that these " taxes ” were in fact the rising costs of the inputs that farmers like this father need to grow coffee and maize , inputs which the government ...
( Mbali focus group , June 11 , 2001 ) Upon further discussion , it became clear that these " taxes ” were in fact the rising costs of the inputs that farmers like this father need to grow coffee and maize , inputs which the government ...
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We have insecticides / pesticides to apply to the crops , but farming has become difficult because of our own action of interfering with the water sources , of cutting down the forest . There is no more water , so although we use modern ...
We have insecticides / pesticides to apply to the crops , but farming has become difficult because of our own action of interfering with the water sources , of cutting down the forest . There is no more water , so although we use modern ...
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Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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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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