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ISBN: | 9781565493964 1565493966 9781565493506 1565493508 9781565493513 1565493516
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Heyck, Denis Lynn Daly. Schools in the forest. Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2010 9781565493506
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