ABSTRACT
This chapter examines non-governmental organization (NGO) and school actors’ discourses of entrepreneurship education to understand how they utilize neo/liberal ideas that might depoliticize inequalities at the same time that they are inspired by alternative and local practices that call for redistribution and justice. It also examines how Parka, an international NGO funded by an international foundation, implements an economically self-sufficient schools (ESS) model in Tanzania. The chapter shows how Parka and school staff also face the challenge of introducing a pedagogical approach that international and NGO actors regard as necessary to improve the quality of education, but is often resisted by some parents and students as not being ‘academic enough’. Parka and its ESS model utilize the discourse of self-reliance, with affinities to that of J. K. Nyerere’s education for self-reliance, in efforts to ‘free’ schools from the contingencies of external donor funding.
