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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... farmers were having on the plains below , but this policy did not last long because officials recognized that irrigation was ... farming the plains , was becoming an environmental concern for the government . So , too , was the worsening ...
... farmers were having on the plains below , but this policy did not last long because officials recognized that irrigation was ... farming the plains , was becoming an environmental concern for the government . So , too , was the worsening ...
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... farmers require because there are no longer enough cattle in Old Moshi to produce manure for all the farmers in the community . The price of hybrid seeds and pesticides , also considered essential items for farming today , make farming ...
... farmers require because there are no longer enough cattle in Old Moshi to produce manure for all the farmers in the community . The price of hybrid seeds and pesticides , also considered essential items for farming today , make farming ...
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... farmers described in Gupta's work in India , the people in Old Moshi embrace many of the intensive farming practices advocated by the World Bank and the government while simultaneously critiquing those prac- tices , especially their ...
... farmers described in Gupta's work in India , the people in Old Moshi embrace many of the intensive farming practices advocated by the World Bank and the government while simultaneously critiquing those prac- tices , especially their ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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