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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... mountain noted some of these features of the land- scape , but they were especially enchanted by the snow at the summit of the mountain . For instance , J. L. Rebmann , a German missionary , visited the area three times and sent back to ...
... mountain noted some of these features of the land- scape , but they were especially enchanted by the snow at the summit of the mountain . For instance , J. L. Rebmann , a German missionary , visited the area three times and sent back to ...
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... mountain . Mission schools emphasized lessons about the Bible , but they gradually expanded the curriculum to include basic literacy and numeracy skills , music , hygiene instruction , and geography ( Lema , 1968 ) . While the number of ...
... mountain . Mission schools emphasized lessons about the Bible , but they gradually expanded the curriculum to include basic literacy and numeracy skills , music , hygiene instruction , and geography ( Lema , 1968 ) . While the number of ...
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... mountain and the consequent lack of available land there , the government set up ujamaa villages on the plains below the mountain and tried to recruit Chagga to move down to populate them . These efforts largely failed , however ...
... mountain and the consequent lack of available land there , the government set up ujamaa villages on the plains below the mountain and tried to recruit Chagga to move down to populate them . These efforts largely failed , however ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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