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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How , for instance , does one make sense of the sacri- fices many parents make to pay for their children's schooling when they know very well that good jobs do not await the majority of graduates ? Approaches other than those used for ...
How , for instance , does one make sense of the sacri- fices many parents make to pay for their children's schooling when they know very well that good jobs do not await the majority of graduates ? Approaches other than those used for ...
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The Reagan - Thatcher opposition to state regulation , for instance , complemented neoclassical economic theory that had gained prominence in international development discourses by this time . Neo- classical economics contends that ...
The Reagan - Thatcher opposition to state regulation , for instance , complemented neoclassical economic theory that had gained prominence in international development discourses by this time . Neo- classical economics contends that ...
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For instance , the World Bank's policy on education and AIDS begins with a section entitled " How We Got Here ” ( p . 3 ) . Only one of the seven items discussed mentions political - economic factors by name ( in reference to commercial ...
For instance , the World Bank's policy on education and AIDS begins with a section entitled " How We Got Here ” ( p . 3 ) . Only one of the seven items discussed mentions political - economic factors by name ( in reference to commercial ...
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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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