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Book Synopsis Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity by : Rosi Smith
Download or read book Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity written by Rosi Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Cuba’s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans’ political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in the name of survival. The author examines this educational experience from the perspective of those who grew up in the years of economic crisis following the fall of the Soviet Union, charting their ideals, their frustrations and their struggle to reconcile revolutionary rhetoric with twenty-first century reality.
Book Synopsis On Becoming Cuban by : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Download or read book On Becoming Cuban written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.
Book Synopsis The Lost Generation? by : Rosemary Smith
Download or read book The Lost Generation? written by Rosemary Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebel Literacy written by Mark Abendroth and published by Litwin Books. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebel Literacy is a look at Cuba's National Literacy Campaign of 1961 in historical and global contexts. The Cuban Revolution cannot be understood without a careful study of Cuba's prior struggles for national sovereignty. Similarly, an understanding of Cuba's National Literacy Campaign demands an inquiry into the historical currents of popular movements in Cuba to make education a right for all. The scope of this book, though, does not end with 1961 and is not limited to Cuba and its historical relations with Spain, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. Nearly 50 years after the Year of Education in Cuba, the Literacy Campaign's legacy is evident throughout Latin America and the 'Third World.' A world-wide movement today continues against neoliberalism and for a more humane and democratic global political economy. It is spreading literacy for critical global citizenship, and Cuba's National Literacy Campaign is a part of the foundation making this global movement possible. The author collected about 100 testimonies of participants in the Campaign, and many of their stories and perspectives are highlighted in one of the chapters. Theirs are the stories of perhaps the world's greatest educational accomplishment of the 20th Century, and critical educators of the 21st Century must not overlook the arduous and fruitful work that ordinary Cubans, many in their youth, contributed toward a nationalism and internationalism of emancipation.
Download or read book Citizenship Education in Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines citizenship formation in Cuba. It asks "What does it mean to be a Cuban citizen today?" Drawing on concepts of state power and solidarity, I explore Cuba's official narrative of "good" citizenship as well as citizens' engagement with values and civic dispositions in daily life. For this qualitative study, I interviewed forty-five parents, young people, and social studies educators to understand how civic values are inculcated and practiced. I also analyzed the national civic education curriculum to learn about the Cuban government's definition of ideal citizenship. Further, I conducted participant observations in homes and one neighborhood community to deepen my awareness of citizenship education in action. Findings demonstrate that values such as solidarity and convivencia (living together) are purposefully modeled and honed across home, neighborhood, and formal schooling contexts. Yet the growing economic gap in today's Cuba has introduced significant challenges: citizens across generations reported on the need to prioritize their own individual concerns over helping their fellow Cubans. Parents and veteran teachers remain committed to formal schooling completion and formal labor participation as rudimentary to "good" citizenship. However, young people, raised in a very different political generation, reconcile contradictions between the expectations and daily realities with greater degrees of autonomy from ideal notions of citizenship. These findings mark an important period of time, just following the increase in private markets and just prior to restored diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States. They document on-going social and economic transitions in Cuba and evidence how working-class families make meaning of these changes relative to the Revolution. Such changes hold great impact for schooling as well as for citizenship
Book Synopsis Educating for the 21st Century by : Suzanne Choo
Download or read book Educating for the 21st Century written by Suzanne Choo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world, governments, policymakers, and educators are advocating the need to educate students for the 21st first century. This book provides insights into what this means and the ways 21st century education is theorized and implemented in practice. The first part, “Perspectives: Mapping our futures-in-the-making,” uncovers the contradictions, tensions and processes that shape 21st century education discourses. The second part, “Policies: Constructing the future through policymaking,” discusses how 21st century education is translated into policies and the resulting tensions that emerge from top-down, state sanctioned policies and bottom-up initiatives. The third part, “Practices: Enacting the Future in Local Contexts,” discusses on-the-ground initiatives that schools in various countries around the world enact to educate their students for the 21st century. This volume includes contributions from leading scholars in the field as well as educators from schools and those working with schools.
Book Synopsis On Becoming Cuban by : Jr Perez, Louis A.
Download or read book On Becoming Cuban written by Jr Perez, Louis A. and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba explains how American influence helped shape Cuba's sense of identity, prosperity, and modernity and set the stage for the 1959 revolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Value-Creating Education by : Emiliano Bosio
Download or read book Value-Creating Education written by Emiliano Bosio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a pivotal reference point and a wide range of global perspectives of teaching experiences on value-creating education (VCE), this book is a timely spotlight on contemporary issues of globalisation that many educational institutions around the world may encounter. It contributes to the originality of constructing new knowledge in the field of VCE, a forward-looking framework, and an ethical and educational imperative that can be understood in different ways, from diverse theoretical orientations. The chapters written by experienced international educators explore the following questions: How do educators understand the role of VCE? What pedagogical approaches to VCE do educators employ in their classes? How do educators support the values and knowledge of VCE in all curricular areas? What do educators see as the key essential values and knowledge that students should develop through VCE? It offers valuable insights and applied pedagogical practices for postgraduate students, researchers, educational policy makers, curriculum developers, and decision-makers in higher education institutions and non-governmental organizations (e.g., UNESCO, OXFAM).
Book Synopsis The People's Professors of Cuba by : Kate Moody
Download or read book The People's Professors of Cuba written by Kate Moody and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Professors: How Cuba Achieved Education for All describes how Cuba managed, in spite of scarce resources, to successfully educate its entire population after the revolution in 1959. It details how illiterate peasants learned to read and write, how the nation’s vision of education was developed, how the national school system was doubled in size, thousands of teachers were educated, and now—how Cuba is entering the realm of digital media and the internet. The people of Cuba can read and write better than the citizens of most countries, including the United States. Moreover, Cubans excel on international measures of math, science, the arts, and healthcare. This book considers Cuba’s schools as well as its integrated systems such as healthcare and community mental health, and makes a case for the principles that education is a human right, and that teaching is the responsibility of everyone.
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education by :
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice.
Book Synopsis Cuba's Forgotten Decade by : Emily J. Kirk
Download or read book Cuba's Forgotten Decade written by Emily J. Kirk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the course of the Revolution. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s which challenges prevailing interpretations. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and exploring a range of areas—including politics, international relations, culture, education, and healthcare—its contributing authors demonstrate that the decade was a time of intense transformation which proved pivotal to the development of the Revolution. Indeed, many of the ideas, approaches, policies, and legislation developed and tested during the 1970s maintain a very visible legacy in contemporary Cuba. In highlighting the complexity of the 1970s, this volume ultimately aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the Cuban Revolution and how it chooses to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Cuba by : Antoni Kapcia
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Cuba written by Antoni Kapcia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a completely new Historical Dictionary for Cuba (the first since 1988). It gives a comprehensive and detailed coverage and analysis of all of the key elements, factors, biographies, narratives, and treaties in Cuban history from the 1400s to the present day, with an emphasis on the decades after 1959. Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Cuba.
Book Synopsis Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood by : Takkara Keosha Brunson
Download or read book Constructing Afro-Cuban Womanhood written by Takkara Keosha Brunson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores continuities and transformations in the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood in Cuba between 1902 and 1958. A dynamic and evolving process, the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood encompassed the formal and informal practices that multiple individuals -- from lawmakers and professionals to intellectuals and activists to workers and their families -- established and challenged through public debates and personal interactions in order to negotiate evolving systems of power. The dissertation argues that Afro-Cuban women were integral to the formation of a modern Cuban identity. Studies of pre-revolutionary Cuba dichotomize race and gender in their analyses of citizenship and national identity formation. As such, they devote insufficient attention to the role of Afro-Cuban women in engendering social transformations. The dissertation's chapters -- on patriarchal discourses of racial progress, photographic representations, la mujer negra (the black woman), and feminist, communist, and labor movements -- probe how patriarchy and assumptions of black racial inferiority simultaneously informed discourses of citizenship within a society that sought to project itself as a white masculine nation. Additionally, the dissertation examines how Afro-Cuban women's writings and social activism shaped legal reforms, perceptions of cubanidad (Cuban identity), and Afro-Cuban community formation. The study utilizes a variety of sources: organizational records, letters from women to politicians, photographic representations, periodicals, literature, and labor and education statistics. Engaging the fields of Latin American history, African diaspora studies, gender studies, and visual culture studies, the dissertation maintains that an intersectional analysis of race, gender, and nation is integral to developing a nuanced understanding of the pre-revolutionary era.
Book Synopsis A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba by : Antoni Kapcia
Download or read book A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba written by Antoni Kapcia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway's intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (jazz to rumba), its rich literature, its art and dance (danzón to mambo) and perhaps above all for its bold experiment of a socialist revolution in action. Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations between Cuba and the USA now makes a fresh appraisal of the country and its modern history essential. He authoritatively explores the 'essence' of the Cuban revolution, revealing it to be a maverick phenomenon tied not so much to socialism or Communism for their own sakes but instead to an idealistic vision of postcolonial nationalism. Reassessing the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the author examines the central personalities: not just the famous trio of Che Guevara, Fidel and Raúl Castro in shaping the ideas of the revolution but, still further back, the visionary ideology of José Martí. Kapcia's book reflects on the future of the revolution as aúl nd his government began to cede power to a new generation.
Book Synopsis Cuba, the Elusive Nation by : Damián J. Fernández
Download or read book Cuba, the Elusive Nation written by Damián J. Fernández and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New readings by major exile scholars on the unsettling but weighty question of defining who the Cubans are, what constitutes their national identity, and how they might define themselves as Cubans with respect to their distant island culture. The perspectives presented cover the fields of history, political science, sociology, art, music, literature, anthropology, religion, and gender studies."--Ivan A. Schulman, University of Illinois This anthology brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who look at one main question: What constitutes Cuban identity? Encouraged to go beyond received ideas and time-worn methodologies, they offer revisionist perspectives that argue for a "Cubanness" marked more by tension and diversity than by harmony and similarity, more impure than pure, more elastic than static. By examining issues often misrepresented or simply ignored in the past, sources and voices contribute to a fluidity that resonates with the collection's title. Contents Interpretations of National Identity, by Damián J. Fernández and Madeline Cámara Betancourt I. The Nation as Historical Narration 1. Reconstructing Cubanness: Changing Discourses of National Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora during the Twentieth Century, by Jorge Duany 2. Rethinking Tradition and Identity: The Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, by María Elena Díaz 3. Rethinking Race and Nation in Cuba, by Ada Ferrer II. The Nation as Incomplete Desire 4. Cuba and Lo Cubano, or the Story of Desire and Disenchantment, by Damián J. Fernández 5. Between Myth and Stereotype: The Image of the Mulatta in Cuban Culture in the Nineteenth Century, a Truncated Symbol of Nationality, by Madeline Cámara Betancourt 6. Boleros, Divas, and Identity Models, by José Quiroga 7. Post-Utopia: The Erotics of Power and Cuba's Revolutionary Children, by Ruth Behar 8. Cuban CondemNation of Queer Bodies, by Emilio Bejel III. The Nation as Metaphor 9. The Nation without a Story, by Antonio Vera-León 10. Bondage in Paradise: Fredrika Bremer's Travels to Cuba and the Inscape of National Identity, by Adriana Méndez Rodenas 11. The Sea, the Sea, Once and Again: Lo Cubano and the Literature of the Novismas, by Nara Araújo 12. Gallery of Cuban Writing, by Rafael Rojas IV. The National as the Transnational 13. The Musicalia of Twentieth-Century Cuban Popular Musicians, by Raúl Fernández 14. Lo Blanco-Criollo as Lo Cubano: The Symbolization of a Cuban National Identity in Modernist Painting of the 1940s, by Juan A. Martínez 15. The Trouble with Collusion: Paradoxes of the Cuban-American Way, by Max J. Castro Damián J. Fernández is associate professor and chair of the International Relations Department at Florida International University. He is the editor of Cuban Studies since the Revolution (UPF, 1992) and the author of Cuba and the Politics of Passion. Madeline Cámara Betancourt is assistant professor in the Division of Humanities at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley. She is the author of Vocación de Casandra: La poesía de María Elena Cruz Varela.
Book Synopsis Cuban Studies 49 by : Alejandro de la Fuente
Download or read book Cuban Studies 49 written by Alejandro de la Fuente and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. Cuban Studies 49 includes dossiers on gender and feminism, economy, and history of education.
Download or read book We Are Cuba! written by Helen Yaffe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary account of the Cuban people’s struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Cuban leaders, thinkers, and activists, this book tells for the first time the remarkable story of how Cuba survived while the rest of the Soviet bloc crumbled. Yaffe shows how Cuba has been gradually introducing select market reforms. While the government claims that these are necessary to sustain its socialist system, many others believe they herald a return to capitalism. Examining key domestic initiatives including the creation of one of the world’s leading biotechnological industries, its energy revolution, and medical internationalism alongside recent economic reforms, Yaffe shows why the revolution will continue post-Castro. This is a fresh, compelling account of Cuba’s socialist revolution and the challenges it faces today.
