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).

• 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

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.

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).

• 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

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.

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).

• 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

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.