Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values : : Educating the New Socialist Citizen / / Denise F. Blum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Blum, Denise F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often lauded, the little-known dropout ra...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 1953–1970: Constructing Conciencia
• Chapter 2 The Revolution in Education
• Chapter 3 1970–1985: Reconciling Revolutionary Fervor with the Requisites of the Modern State
• Chapter 4 1986–2000: Rectification and the Special Period
• Chapter 5 Revolutionary Pedagogy in Action
• Chapter 6 The Cuban Pioneer Student Organization: Who Will Be Like Che?
• Chapter 7 Cuba’s School to the Countryside Program
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1 Suitcases, Jump Ropes, and lo espiritual: Methodology a la cubana
• Appendix 2 Surveys
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index