Guerrilla Reading – What Former Revolutionaries Tell Us About The Neuroscience Of Reading
Dec 2, 2009 General, Learning and Knowledge, Science and Technology
In the 1990s, Colombia reintegrated five left-wing guerrilla groups back into mainstream society after decades of conflict. Education was a big priority – many of the guerrillas had spent their entire lives fighting and were more familiar with the grasp of a gun than a pencil. Reintegration offered them the chance to learn to read and write for the first time in their lives, but it also offered Manuel Carreiras a chance to study what happens in the human brain as we become literate.
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