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Views from Venezuela: The Elite University vs.the Revolutionary University

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The anti-Chavez rhetoric breaks my revolutionary heart as I see how difficult it is to transform a country from the capitalist greed model to a new model of socialism for social justice. Bless Chavez for caring about the poor and oppressed.  He has even worked with the indigenous people through the Bolivariana Indigenous Studies program to frame their own constitutions in the pueblos. 

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Freire, P. (1974) Education as the Practice of Freedom. (14 th Edition), Mexico: Siglo XXI.

Bolivarian University of Venezuela (2003). Guiding document. Caracas.

Bolivarian University of Venezuela (2008). Popular education, strategic planning and community participation

 

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June Scorza Terpstra, Ph.D. is an activist educator and university lecturer in Justice Studies, Criminal Justice and Sociology. She has founded numerous programs for homeless, abused, youth and oppressed people in the USA. She is presently teaching (more...)
 
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