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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Fertility rates are declining in the region even though there is no sex education in most schools ; it seems likely , then , that the higher education - lower fertility correlation in Kilimanjaro is the result of factors that are not ...
Fertility rates are declining in the region even though there is no sex education in most schools ; it seems likely , then , that the higher education - lower fertility correlation in Kilimanjaro is the result of factors that are not ...
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Although participant observation at Njema Secondary School helped me see the flaws in this simplistic formula , it has taken several years of additional research to understand the complex local calculus of family planning and fertility ...
Although participant observation at Njema Secondary School helped me see the flaws in this simplistic formula , it has taken several years of additional research to understand the complex local calculus of family planning and fertility ...
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In addition , I wanted to know whether young women's lower fertility desires signaled for their parents a cultural crisis and a loss of Chagga identity . To learn about parents ' perspectives , I spent considerable time talking to ...
In addition , I wanted to know whether young women's lower fertility desires signaled for their parents a cultural crisis and a loss of Chagga identity . To learn about parents ' perspectives , I spent considerable time talking to ...
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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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