To address the erosion of traditions, the fading of traditional knowledge, and an urgent need for locally relevant education, ACT has helped Amazonian tribes develop so-called "ethnoeducation" primary and secondary education programs that teach children from the perspective of both traditional and western knowledge systems. Typically, in addition to conventional subject matter, students receive coursework in ancestral agriculture practices, tribal cosmology, tribal language, and tribal history. The students constitute the tribes' future leadership, thus the ethnoeducational processes have great ramifications for the long-term prospects of their communities and environment.
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