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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value of their currency has declined from 15.3 shillings to $ 1US in 1984 ( TGNP , 1993 ) , to approximately 600 shillings to $ 1US by the end of 1996 , to around 1,000 shillings to the dollar in 2003. Concurrently , the minimum monthly ...
value of their currency has declined from 15.3 shillings to $ 1US in 1984 ( TGNP , 1993 ) , to approximately 600 shillings to $ 1US by the end of 1996 , to around 1,000 shillings to the dollar in 2003. Concurrently , the minimum monthly ...
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Midway through my fieldwork year in 1996 , the government announced that the fees for public secondary school students would rise immediately from 15,000 ( $ 26 ) to 40,000 ( $ 69 ) shillings per year for boarding students , and from ...
Midway through my fieldwork year in 1996 , the government announced that the fees for public secondary school students would rise immediately from 15,000 ( $ 26 ) to 40,000 ( $ 69 ) shillings per year for boarding students , and from ...
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The system now in place involves groups of five people who each contribute 5,000–10,000 shillings per month . They also pay 1,000 shillings for pre - membership and pre - loan training . After four months , a person is eligible for a ...
The system now in place involves groups of five people who each contribute 5,000–10,000 shillings per month . They also pay 1,000 shillings for pre - membership and pre - loan training . After four months , a person is eligible for a ...
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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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