Schooling as Uncertainty

An Ethnographic Memoir in Comparative Education

AvFrances Vavrus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-25
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:594 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350164482

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Frances Vavrus is Professor of Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, USA. She is Chair of the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee on the Application of the Recommendations Concerning Teaching Personnel and the co-author of Rethinking Case Study Research (2017) and Teaching in Tension (2013).

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Fran Vavrus’ book is an extraordinary exploration into education, family, and identity. The book showcases her skill as a researcher, the value of long-term reflection on one’s own role in the context of international education, and the ways in which women’s experiences can be ignored or hidden Her honesty in sharing vulnerable moments in her life, will be illuminating for people at varied points in their own journeys.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: Shaky Beginnings1. Marital Misgivings2. Spoons, Strikes, and SchoolingPart II: Precarious Parenthood3. A Difficult Delivery4. Preventable DeathsPart III: Fallible Expertise5. Questioning Dr. Spock6: Questioning Corporal PunishmentPart IV: AIDS and the Ordinariness of Crisis 7. Schooling, Sponsorship, and Social Contingency8. The Burden of Care: Grandparents and the AIDS CrisisPart V: Policy Arbitrariness9: Tripping on the Tenure Track 10. Aspirational Equality and the Precarity of PolicyPart VI: The Social Life of Uncertainty11. Speed Bumps on Lema Road12. Gendered ContingenciesEpilogueGlossaryAcknowledgementsReferencesIndex