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Hopes in Friction - Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda (Hardcover, New)
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Hopes in Friction - Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda (Hardcover, New)
Series: Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
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A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Series Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana
University Hopes in Friction offers a vivid portrait of life and
the implementation of Universal Primary Education in Eastern
Uganda, based on longterm fieldwork following a group of children
as they grow up. The book considers how the actions and hopes of
these children and families, to attain what they perceive as 'a
good life', are crosscut by political aspirations and projects of
schooling and health education.When hopes are in friction
inspiration as well as disappointment occur. Policy makers in
Uganda and in international organisations expect health
improvements as one of the bonuses of education programs. Families
in Eastern Uganda also hope for and experience health - in the
local sense of a good life - as part of schooling. Lotte Meinert
explores the taken for granted effect of schooling on health and
focuses a careful eye on how boys and girls appropriate and
negotiate ideas and moralities about health in the context of what
is possible ethically, materially and experientially. Endorsement:
Hope in Friction gives us first-hand insight into the aspirations
and ideals of Ugandan schoolchildren. Meinert shows us how local
communities shape and reshape health education policies. Like two
sticks rubbed together, top-down programs and bottom-up perceptions
of wellbeing grate to produce sparks of hope. This work makes an
important contribution to a growing literature on schooling in
contemporary Africa. [Amy Stambach, author of Lessons from Mount
Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in east Africa] Amy
Stambach, University of Wisconsin-Madison What do we learn when we
go to school? Among other things, Lotte Meinert reminds us,
children learn the bodily techniques of a hierarchical modernity:
standing in lines, singing during parades, bending to be caned,
sitting at desks. Within this frame, formal abstractions about
health care in the eastern Ugandan primary school curriculum are
not translated into domestic practice. Yet this lively and
insightful book holds further surprises. School children do use
their education-for example, to mediate for their parents with
disrespectful health professionals. Hopes in Friction exemplifies
the power of the anthropological gaze to move us outside the narrow
confines of educational policy debates, allowing us to re-examine
both the dead-ends and promises of schooling. Anna Tsing,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
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