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Download full textKoren, Johan – 2000
Rural communities face a dilemma in their efforts to keep pace with knowledge developments. Their remoteness makes access to knowledge of the outside world difficult, time-consuming, and costly. At the same time, the fact that there is access of a sort can mean that local knowledge becomes lost or discarded as somehow inferior. The pervasiveness…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Acculturation, Colonialism, Cultural Maintenance
