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This chapter focuses on the creation of the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT) in the Legal Brazilian Amazon region. We present the main lines of a systemic vision related to the subject as a strategy for locating readers in the big picture and motivating new approaches to problems and questions intrinsic to the object itself. First of all, we must ask: Why is the creation of the UFT regarded as a unique event in the national and international scene?
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Rolim, C.L.A., Rocha, J.D.T., Pereira, P.A.A. (2011). Higher Education and Regional Sustainable Development: The Case of the Federal University of Tocantins in the Brazilian Cerrado. In: de Amorim Soares, M., Petarnella, L. (eds) Schooling for Sustainable Development in South America. Schooling for Sustainable Development, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1754-1_10
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