Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro : schooling, community, and gender in East Africa / Amy Stambach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stambach, Amy, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Social aspects--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Education.

Sex discrimination in education--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Sex discrimination in education.

Educational anthropology--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Educational anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 2000

Contents:

Cover; MOUNT KILIMANJARO; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 ""WHAT EDUCATED YOUTH DO THESE DAYS"" DIVERGENT VIEWS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLING; An Illustration from Village Life; Conceptual Issues:Theorizing Modernity, Gender, and Generation; Locations: Machame, Ndala Village, and Mkufi Secondary School; ""A Person Living in a Foreign Place Should Not Question Everything She Sees"": Reflections on Fieldwork; 2 SCHOOLING, INHERITANCE, AND BANANA GROVES SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF LOCAL LIFE

Babu Munissi's Desiccated Trees: Banana Groves and the Signs of Social Difference The Promises of Schooling: Development and Symbolic Capital; Education for Self-Reliance and the Agricultural Science Syllabus; Answering the Riddle: How Schools and Groves Symbolically Interrelate; 3 ""SHOULD WE DRINK BANANA BEER OR COCA-COLA?"" REDEFINING THE SIGNS OF TRADITIONALISM; How the Home Economics Syllabus Connects Women to the State; Interlude: On Using the Syllabus to Reconfigure Marriage and Reproduction; City Sisters and Stay-at-Home Mothers: Oppositions Associated with Schooling

Samueli's and Monica's Wedding Female Circumcision and Initiation; 4 ""EDUCATION IS MY HUSBAND"" GENERATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS; The Legacy of Colonial Ethnographies in Contemporary Formulations of ""Education""; Eshimuni's Success: An Example of Social Autonomy within Limits; Emi Shoo: An Example of Falling Short of an Ideal; Neema Mushi, Who Left School; Schooling as a Factor in Imagining New Possibilities; 5 ""BOYS, PRESERVE YOUR BULLETS; GIRLS, LOCK YOUR BOXES"" GENDERED MESSAGES IN CLASSES AND THE CURRICULUM; Gender Asymmetries in Geography and English Classes

Commentary on the Gendered Characteristics of Teaching Moral Education: Gendered Lessons on Marriage and Sexuality; 6 ""THINGS WITH SOCKS"" STUDENT LIFE AND POPULAR CULTURE; ""Socks""; Ambiguous Terms and Categories: Sorting Adolescents from Adults and Children; Reflections; Bobby Brown, Computer Beat, and Lover Boy: Male Signifiers of Youth Culture; The Shifting and Uncertain Status of Youth: Wazee Wazima; Educational Outcomes and Social Transformations; 7 ""MOUNTAINS NEVER MEET BUT PEOPLE DO"" RELATIONSHIPS BUILT THROUGH SCHOOLING; The Cultural Dynamics of Education

Implications for the Study of Gender and GenerationOn the Transformative Qualities of Ethnography and Education; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-95922-6

1-280-40708-5

1-135-95923-4

0-203-90105-3

9780203901052

OCLC:

50506737