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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Page 85
... views suggest that ' good ' Chagga parents recognize that schooling is the best way to help one's children cope with maisha magumu . In addition to specific national references about identity and development , some people in Kilimanjaro ...
... views suggest that ' good ' Chagga parents recognize that schooling is the best way to help one's children cope with maisha magumu . In addition to specific national references about identity and development , some people in Kilimanjaro ...
Page 91
... views on the reasons why some girls are especially vulnerable to AIDS : " A big thing that causes people to get AIDS in Tanzania is prostitution . If you ask them why , they will say that they don't like it but they do this to get money ...
... views on the reasons why some girls are especially vulnerable to AIDS : " A big thing that causes people to get AIDS in Tanzania is prostitution . If you ask them why , they will say that they don't like it but they do this to get money ...
Page 135
... views that Njema students encountered on campus raise ques- tions about how directly schooling affects or can affect fertility decline . These questions remained in Chapter 4 , where I looked at the views of sec- ondary school graduates ...
... views that Njema students encountered on campus raise ques- tions about how directly schooling affects or can affect fertility decline . These questions remained in Chapter 4 , where I looked at the views of sec- ondary school graduates ...
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International Development and | 25 |
Transformations in Schooling | 45 |
Condoms Are the Devil and the Culture | 65 |
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