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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... Parents were satis- fied if their children completed Standard 2 or 3 .... Parents wanted their children to farm and look after their cattle . ( interview , June 24 , 1996 ) Similar to their Pare neighbors , the Chagga adults in this ...
... Parents were satis- fied if their children completed Standard 2 or 3 .... Parents wanted their children to farm and look after their cattle . ( interview , June 24 , 1996 ) Similar to their Pare neighbors , the Chagga adults in this ...
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... parents in Old Moshi reveal how the imagination helps to turn collective beliefs about the future into action ( Appa- durai , 1996 ) : In this community , educating one's daughters is a key marker of cultural identity as a Chagga and as ...
... parents in Old Moshi reveal how the imagination helps to turn collective beliefs about the future into action ( Appa- durai , 1996 ) : In this community , educating one's daughters is a key marker of cultural identity as a Chagga and as ...
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... parents to provide their children with more than a primary education . Without an education , parents fear that their children will be a burden to them in the future , yet educating them is an onus in the present . Given the ...
... parents to provide their children with more than a primary education . Without an education , parents fear that their children will be a burden to them in the future , yet educating them is an onus in the present . Given the ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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