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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Although the emphasis on discursive power does not preclude political engagement with programs seeking to combat ... Critics of postmodernism argue that feminist politics becomes impossible if one does not claim an affiliation with ...
Although the emphasis on discursive power does not preclude political engagement with programs seeking to combat ... Critics of postmodernism argue that feminist politics becomes impossible if one does not claim an affiliation with ...
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theless , economic and political crises triggered by certain neoliberal policies have not received the attention they ... For many politicians and policymakers , it is more comfortable to target cultural stereotypes about gender than it ...
theless , economic and political crises triggered by certain neoliberal policies have not received the attention they ... For many politicians and policymakers , it is more comfortable to target cultural stereotypes about gender than it ...
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attention away from " countercausalities ” —political and economic forces — that also have a profound effect on women's lives ( 1999 , p . 224 ) . The feminist modern further reveals the influence of neoliberalism on the field of ...
attention away from " countercausalities ” —political and economic forces — that also have a profound effect on women's lives ( 1999 , p . 224 ) . The feminist modern further reveals the influence of neoliberalism on the field of ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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