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).

Introduction
Part I: Shaky Beginnings
1. Marital Misgivings
2. Spoons, Strikes, and Schooling
Part II: Precarious Parenthood
3. A Difficult Delivery
4. Preventable Deaths
Part III: Fallible Expertise
5. Questioning Dr. Spock
6: Questioning Corporal Punishment
Part IV: AIDS and the Ordinariness of Crisis
7. Schooling, Sponsorship, and Social Contingency
8. The Burden of Care: Grandparents and the AIDS Crisis
Part V: Policy Arbitrariness
9: Tripping on the Tenure Track
10. Aspirational Equality and the Precarity of Policy
Part VI: The Social Life of Uncertainty
11. Speed Bumps on Lema Road
12. Gendered Contingencies
Epilogue
Glossary
Acknowledgements
References
Index