HER Article "Adjusting Inequality" receives Joyce Cain Award
Jun 1, 2006
Frances Vavrus's Harvard Educational Review article, "Adjusting inequality: Education and structural adjustment policies in Tanzania" [75(2): 174-201] won the Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on African Descendants from the the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Comments from the judges: “This article does a fine job of articulating the complexities, at the local level, of structural adjustment in Tanzania. I like the sensitive way the author approaches the subject: Structural Adjustment has delivered benefits, but also brought disadvantages, to people in her town of interest. The research design is appropriate, and rigorous.” “One can not treat macro-level policy intervention without consideration for the micro- level impact. While SAPs expanded people’s choices and awareness of the expanded world view, they also contributed to magnified age and gender based inequality and limited access to education and health.” This article was included in the Harvard Educational Review Reprint book, International Education for the Millennium.