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| De Mello and her students from the Projeto Uerê website |
Brazilian social activist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello teaches the children of the favelas (slums) according to a method based on neuroscience. She developed this approach after 30 years of research in the slums of Rio and elsewhere, and it works so well that it has been adopted by 150 state schools in the city and is being studied by teachers around the world. "Intelligence can be repaired," de Mello says, "and we have found the way to do it":
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/sep/17/teaching-favela-schooling-street-children-pedagigy-neuroscience-achievement-gap
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