Schools in the forest : how grassroots education brought political empowerment to the Brazilian Amazon /

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Author / Creator:Heyck, Denis Lynn Daly.
Imprint:Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403797
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ISBN:9781565493964
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Beginning in the 1960s, the Brazilian government aggressively developed the Amazon, opening the rainforests up to ranchers and loggers who began clear-cutting at a rapid pace. The indigenous subsistence farmers already living in these areas either fled to the city or found themselves beholden to rich speculators bent on destroying the very foundation of their livelihoods. From these circumstances arose Projeto Seringueiro (Project Rubber Tapper), a radical educational experiment based on the ideas of Paulo Freire that was initially designed to simply bring literacy to the rubber tappers, but g.
Other form:Print version: Heyck, Denis Lynn Daly. Schools in the forest. Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2010 9781565493506