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Studying the Venezuelan approach to learning
As educators across the globe have begun to examine alternative forms of schooling post-covid, it is time to examine the revolutionary, egalitarian and innovative Bolivarian education system, writes LOGAN WILLIAMS
LIBERATING LITERACY: Indigenous people of the Wayuu nation learn to read and write with the Robinson mission in Casusai, Alta Guajira Parish, in the northern-most state of Zulia, Venezuela
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THE merits of the Bolivarian system are plain to see through the country having one of the highest educational progress rates in Latin America and a truly comprehensive system funded by the Venezuelan government led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
In order to understand the Venezuelan education system, it is necessary to examine both its foundations and the reality of education under the illegal US sanctions.
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