Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity

• Main Author: Smith, Rosi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; International and Comparative Education.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Learning Your Place
• Chapter One: Education and Ideology in Cuba
• Chapter Two: ‘Tomorrow’s Heroes’
• Chapter Three: The Emergente Generation
• Chapter Four: The Lost Generation?
• Conclusion: Cuban Citizenship Education in Context
• Bibliography
• Appendix A: Record of Interviews Conducted (Youth)
• Appendix B: Record of Interviews Conducted (Experts). .