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ERIC Number: EJ641766
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
Social Transformation and "Popular Schooling" in Brazil.
Rossatto, Cesar Augusto
Childhood Education, v77 n6 p367-74 2001
Describes three school programs designed to provide alternative schooling for Brazilian street children and illiterate adult students with the basic skills to survive in their world. Directly or indirectly embedded in Freirean principles, the three programs are: (1) Sao Paulo Interdisciplinary School Reform; (2) Projeto Axe: Schooling for Street Children; and (3) Porto Alegre Participative Citizenship. (SD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Children, Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Illiteracy, Literacy Education, Nontraditional Education, Popular Education, Social Change
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Alternative Educational Plan; Brazil; Freire (Paulo); Street Children
Note: International Focus Issue: "Learning in Nontraditional Environments: An International Perspective."