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From Reality to Utopia Hernando Bernal Alarcón summary: From Reality to Utopia describes and analyzes the 47-year history of one of Latin America's most innovative educational institutions, Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO). Initiated in 1947 by a priest working in Sutatenza, Boyacá, a small town in the Colombian Andes mountains, this radio education system used broadcasts to bring literacy, mathematical skills, and health, nutrition and agricultural education to rural adults who were isolated from public services and economic development opportunities. ...READ MORE...
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Schools that Teach and Heal Description of program: Since 1985 the armed conflict in Colombia, among other factors, has resulted in the displacement of between two to three million Colombians. In 2004, the governmental agency responsible for coordinating activities to assist displaced populations, the Social Solidarity Network, has registered 1,512,194 displaced persons in the Unique Registration System. Nonetheless a non-governmental organization, the Consulting Group on Human Rights and Forced Displacement (CODHES), estimates that, since 1985, 3.2 million people have become displaced. Those most affected by this situation are children and women.
Given this situation, it is essential that the country's schools develop the capacity and pedagogical infrastructure required to deal with the pedagogical, social and cultural problems presented by this population. ...READ MORE...
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