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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... societies , economies , and individuals . For more than two centuries we have maintained , rather uncritically , this faith in the influence of education . -Harvey Graff , 1979 The Functionalist Perspective Some of the most enduring ...
... societies , economies , and individuals . For more than two centuries we have maintained , rather uncritically , this faith in the influence of education . -Harvey Graff , 1979 The Functionalist Perspective Some of the most enduring ...
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... societies , so they did not object to Chagga Christians adopting European names and clothing styles and partici- pating actively in schools and churches . While the colonial government continued to organize schools around tribes , one ...
... societies , so they did not object to Chagga Christians adopting European names and clothing styles and partici- pating actively in schools and churches . While the colonial government continued to organize schools around tribes , one ...
Page 123
... societies - people were in agreement that past practices were superior to present ones . The next section explores some of the differences between local views on these societies and inter / national perspectives on community ...
... societies - people were in agreement that past practices were superior to present ones . The next section explores some of the differences between local views on these societies and inter / national perspectives on community ...
Contents
International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
Copyright | |
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