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Schooling as Uncertainty - An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education (Paperback)
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Schooling as Uncertainty - An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education (Paperback)
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In today's uncertain world, few beliefs remain as firmly entrenched
as the optimistic view that more schooling will lead to a better
life. Though this may be true in the aggregate, how do we explain
the circumstances when schooling fails to produce certainty or even
does us harm? Schooling as Uncertainty addresses this question by
combining ethnography and memoir as it guides readers on a 30-year
journey through fieldwork and familyhood in Tanzania and academic
life in the USA. Using reflexive, longitudinal ethnographic
research, the book examines how African youth, particularly young
women, employ schooling in an attempt to counter the uncertainties
of marriage, child rearing, employment, and HIV/AIDS. Adopting a
narrative approach, Vavrus tells the story of how her life became
entangled with a community on Mount Kilimanjaro and how she and
they sought greater security through schooling and, to varying
degrees, succeeded.
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