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Schooling As Uncertainty [electronic resource] : An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education

Author
Vavrus, Frances
Published
London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
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1 online resource (297 pages)
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Contents
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Map of Tanzania and the Kilimanjaro Region -- Introduction -- Part I Shaky Beginnings -- 1 Marital Misgivings -- 2 Spoons, Strikes, and Schooling -- Part II Precarious Parenthood -- 3 A Difficult Delivery -- 4 Preventable Deaths -- Part III Fallible Expertise -- 5 Questioning Dr. Spock -- 6 Questioning Corporal Punishment -- Interlude: From Doctoral Student to Assistant Professor -- Part IV AIDS and the Ordinariness of Crisis -- 7 Schooling, Sponsorship, and Social Contingency and 8 The Burden of Care: Grandparents and the AIDS Crisis -- Part V Policy Arbitrariness -- 9 Tripping on the Tenure Track -- 10 Aspirational Equality and the Precarity of Policy -- Part VI The Social Life of Uncertainty -- 11 Speed Bumps on Lema Road -- 12 Gendered Contingencies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix A: Summary of Research and Teaching Activities in Tanzania -- Appendix B: Overview of the Tanzanian Education System -- References -- Index
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9781350164529 (electronic bk.)
1350164526 (electronic bk.)
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