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Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens - Neoliberalism and Youth Livelihoods in Tanzania (Paperback)
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Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens - Neoliberalism and Youth Livelihoods in Tanzania (Paperback)
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
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Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens examines the multiple and
contradictory purposes and effects of entrepreneurship education
aimed at addressing youth unemployment and alleviating poverty in
Tanzania. Governments in sub-Saharan Africa face increasing
pressure to educate young people through secondary school,
supposedly equipping them with knowledge and skills for employment
and their future. At the same time, many youths do not complete
their education and there are insufficient jobs to employ
graduates. The development community sees entrepreneurship
education as one viable solution to the double edged problem of
inadequate education and few jobs. But while entrepreneurship
education is aligned with a governing rationality of neoliberalism
that requires individuals to create their own livelihoods without
government social supports, the two NGO programs discussed in this
book draw on a rights-based discourse that seeks to educate those
not served by government schools, providing them with educational
and social supports to be included in society. The chapters explore
the tensions that occur when international organizations and NGOs
draw on both neoliberal and liberal human rights discourses to
address the problems of poverty, unemployment and poor quality
education. Furthermore, when these neo/liberal perspectives meet
local ideas of reciprocity and solidarity, they create friction and
alter the programs and effects they have on youth. The book
introduces the concept of entrepreneurial citizens-those who
utilize their innovative skills and behaviors to claim both
economic and social rights from which they had been previously
excluded. The programs taught youth how to develop their own
enterprises, to earn profits, and to save for their own futures;
but youth used their education, skills and labor to provide for
basic needs, to be included in society, and to support their and
their families' well-being. By showing the contradictory effects of
entrepreneurship education programs, the book asks international
agencies and governments to consider how they can go beyond
technical approaches of creating enterprises and increasing income,
and head toward approaches that consider the kinds of labor that
young people and communities value for their wellbeing. This book
will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of education and
international development, youth studies, African Studies and
entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship education.
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