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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... hospitals and dispensaries and the largest percentage of children who have been vaccinated : a striking 94 % compared to the national average of 71 % ( Bureau of Statistics Tanzania and Macro International Inc. , 1997 ) . It is also ...
... hospitals and dispensaries and the largest percentage of children who have been vaccinated : a striking 94 % compared to the national average of 71 % ( Bureau of Statistics Tanzania and Macro International Inc. , 1997 ) . It is also ...
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... hospitals ) and toward hu- man capital development . From a neoliberal perspective , economic growth does not come from state planning but from the knowledge and skills of " forward- looking , profit - maximizing agents ” ( Romer , 1986 ...
... hospitals ) and toward hu- man capital development . From a neoliberal perspective , economic growth does not come from state planning but from the knowledge and skills of " forward- looking , profit - maximizing agents ” ( Romer , 1986 ...
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... hospitals would be better . Our " sisters should continue at school ... [ they ] will be chased away " if pregnant , he said . He also noted that “ abortion helps for family planning , " and that it's " bad luck ” sometimes to have more ...
... hospitals would be better . Our " sisters should continue at school ... [ they ] will be chased away " if pregnant , he said . He also noted that “ abortion helps for family planning , " and that it's " bad luck ” sometimes to have more ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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