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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... Plan for 1961–1964 designed to combat the shortage of Tanzanian professionals . Although Tanzanian in name , the plan was based primarily upon the views of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development ...
... Plan for 1961–1964 designed to combat the shortage of Tanzanian professionals . Although Tanzanian in name , the plan was based primarily upon the views of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development ...
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... planning , I still would not be able to advise girls to involve themselves in these pills be- cause they are girls . They shouldn't involve themselves in matters like these . They only need to deal with studying . Yes , this is what I ...
... planning , I still would not be able to advise girls to involve themselves in these pills be- cause they are girls . They shouldn't involve themselves in matters like these . They only need to deal with studying . Yes , this is what I ...
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... Plan that aided postwar Europe ( " Brown's ' Marshall Plan , " 2001 ) . Such an international fund would be admin- istered by the United Nations to help insulate the flow of aid from national politics . Increasing international aid by ...
... Plan that aided postwar Europe ( " Brown's ' Marshall Plan , " 2001 ) . Such an international fund would be admin- istered by the United Nations to help insulate the flow of aid from national politics . Increasing international aid by ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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