In the Peruvian Amazon, western-style education destroyed local knowledge, says the author. But trained indigenous teachers are restoring confidence in traditional values.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36718
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Pages 39-75 in Tim Unwin (ed.), ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. 386 pages.
USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, New York.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02153
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205 pages., Examines the contradictory cultural forces and value systems of rural and industrial communications. Offers a prospective model at the intersections between agriculture and professional communication in the form of a hybrid communication, "documents of coordination," designed to "go between minds, creating meanings and accommodating novelties to existing sets of beliefs and social institutions." Uses an extension project as a case analysis.
