Cuban Youth And Revolutionary Values

Author : Denise F. Blum
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292722606

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Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values by Denise F. Blum Pdf

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 rates among teenagers receive less scrutiny. In vivid, succinct reporting, educational anthropologist Denise Blum now shares her findings regarding this overlooked aspect of the Castro legacy. Despite the fact that primary-school enrollment rates exceed those of the United States, the reverse is true for the crucial years between elementary school and college. After providing a history of Fidel Castro's educational revolution begun in 1953, Denise Blum delivers a close examination of the effects of the program, which was designed to produce a society motivated by benevolence rather than materialism. Exploring pioneering pedagogy, the notion of civic education, and the rural components of the program, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values brims with surprising findings about one of the most intriguing social experiments in recent history.

Author : Anne Luke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498532075

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Youth and the Cuban Revolution by Anne Luke Pdf

Youth and the Cuban Revolution: Youth Culture and Politics in 1960s Cuba is a new history of the first decade of the Cuban Revolution, exploring how youth came to play such an important role in the 1960s on this Caribbean island. Certainly, youth culture and politics worldwide were in the ascendant in that decade, but in this pioneering and thought-provoking work Anne Luke explains how the unique circumstances of the newly developing socialist revolution in Cuba created an ethos of youth which becomes one of the factors that explains how and why the Cuban Revolution survives to this day. By examining how youth was constructed and constituted within revolutionary discourse, policy, and the lived experience of young Cubans in the 1960s, Luke examines the conflicted (but ultimately successful) development of a revolutionary youth culture. She explores the fault lines along which the notion of youth was created—between the internal and the external, between discourse and the everyday, between politics and culture. Luke looks at how in the first decade of the Cuban Revolution a young leadership—Fidel, Raúl and Che—were complemented by a group of new protagonists from Cuba’s young generation. These could be literacy teachers, party members, militia members, teachers, singers, poets… all aiming to define and shape the Cuban Revolution. Together young Cubans took part in defining what it meant to be young, socialist and Cuban in this effervescent decade. The picture that emerges is one in which neither youth politics nor youth culture can alone help to explain the first decade of the Revolution; rather through the sometimes conflicted intersection of both there emerged a generation constantly to be renewed—a youth in Revolution.

Author : Julie Marie Bunck
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271040270

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Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba by Julie Marie Bunck Pdf

"An excellent study of political culture, emphasizing cultural and normative resistance to revolutionary values, norms, and goals. Challenges much of the scholarship that maintained that revolution permanently transformed Cuba's traditional culture, and finds that 'most Cuban workers rejected many of the revolutionary requirements of the Castro government' (p. 184). Highly recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Author : Denise F. Blum
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780292739529

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Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values by Denise F. Blum Pdf

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 rates among teenagers receive less scrutiny. In vivid, succinct reporting, educational anthropologist Denise Blum now shares her findings regarding this overlooked aspect of the Castro legacy. Despite the fact that primary-school enrollment rates exceed those of the United States, the reverse is true for the crucial years between elementary school and college. After providing a history of Fidel Castro's educational revolution begun in 1953, Denise Blum delivers a close examination of the effects of the program, which was designed to produce a society motivated by benevolence rather than materialism. Exploring pioneering pedagogy, the notion of civic education, and the rural components of the program, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values brims with surprising findings about one of the most intriguing social experiments in recent history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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cuban communism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gil Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037853335

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Cuba, the Continuing Revolution by Gil Green Pdf

Author : Anita Casavantes Bradford
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611525

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The Revolution is for the Children by Anita Casavantes Bradford Pdf

Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962

Author : Jennifer L. Lambe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469681160

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The Subject of Revolution by Jennifer L. Lambe Pdf

From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theater, and material culture, this book traces the consolidation of the Revolution over two decades in the interface between political and popular culture. The "subject of Revolution," it proposes, should be understood as the evolving synthesis of the imaginaries constructed by its many "subjects," including revolutionary leaders, activists, academics, and ordinary people within and beyond the island's borders. The book reopens some of the questions that have long animated debates about Cuba, from the relationship between populace and leadership to the archive and its limits, while foregrounding the construction of popular understandings. It argues that the politicization of everyday life was an inescapable effect of the revolutionary process as well as the catalyst for new ways of knowing and being.

Author : Luis Martínez-Fernández
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048765

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Revolutionary Cuba by Luis Martínez-Fernández Pdf

This is the first book in more than three decades to offer a complete and chronological history of revolutionary Cuba, including the years of rebellion that led to the revolution. Beginning with Batista’s coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and bringing the reader to the present-day transformations initiated by Raúl Castro, Luis Martínez-Fernández provides a balanced interpretive synthesis of the major topics of contemporary Cuban history. Expertly weaving the myriad historic, social, and political forces that shaped the island nation during this period, Martínez-Fernández examines the circumstances that allowed the revolution to consolidate in the early 1960s, the Soviet influence throughout the latter part of the Cold War, and the struggle to survive the catastrophic Special Period of the 1990s after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. He tackles the island’s chronic dependence on sugar production, which started with the plantations centuries ago and continues to shape culture and society. He analyzes the revolutionary pendulum that continues to swing between idealism and pragmatism, focusing on its effects on the everyday lives of the Cuban people, and—bucking established trends in Cuban scholarship—Martínez-Fernández systematically integrates the Cuban diaspora into the larger discourse of the revolution. Concise, well written, and accessible, this book is an indispensable survey of the history and themes of the socialist revolution that forever changed Cuba and the world.

Author : JIS Contributors
Publisher : OJED/STAR
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Special Issue: Soka Approaches in Education Vol 9 No SI (2020) by JIS Contributors Pdf

Special Issue: Soka Approaches in EducationVol 9 No SI (2020)

Author : Sujatha Fernandes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822338912

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Cuba Represent! by Sujatha Fernandes Pdf

The government has allowed vocal criticism of its policies to be expressed within the arts.

Author : Rosi Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137583062

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Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity by Rosi Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Lillian Guerra
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822989783

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Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba by Lillian Guerra Pdf

Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan “patria o muerte” (fatherland or death) has recently been challenged in protests that have adopted the theme song “patria y vida” (fatherland and life), a collaboration by exiles that, predictably, has been banned in Cuba itself. Lillian Guerra excavates the rise of a Soviet-advised Communist culture controlled by state institutions and the creation of a multidimensional system of state security whose functions embedded themselves into daily activities and individual consciousness and reinforced these binaries. But despite public performance of patriotism, the life experience of many Cubans was somewhere in between. Guerra explores these in-between spaces and looks at Cuban citizens’ complicity with authoritarianism, leaders’ exploitation of an earnest anti-imperialist nationalism, and the duality of an existence that contains elements of both support and betrayal of a nation and of an ideology.

Author : Anna Clayfield
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683401087

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The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution by Anna Clayfield Pdf

In this extensively researched book, Anna Clayfield challenges contemporary Western views on the militarization of Cuba. She argues that, while the pervasiveness of armed forces in revolutionary Cuba is hard to refute, it is the guerrilla legacy, ethos, and image—“guerrillerismo”—that has helped the Cuban revolutionary project survive. The veneration of the guerrilla fighter has been crucial to the political culture’s underdog mentality. Analyzing official discourse, including newspapers, history textbooks, army training manuals, the writings of Che Guevara, and the speeches of Fidel Castro, Clayfield examines how the Cuban government has promoted guerrilla motifs. After 1959, the revolutionary leadership relied on this discourse to shape a new political culture. During the implementation of Soviet-style management in the late 1960s and 1970s, Cuba underwent profound structural changes, but the beliefs and values that underpinned the Revolution—and that were linked to the guerrilla ethos—were still upheld. Clayfield traces the shifting ideologies that circulated in Cuba during the 1980s to show how this rhetorical strategy helped prevent the proliferation of a siege mentality. The guerrilla code became a recourse Cuban leadership used to steel the population through the 1990s Special Period following the collapse of the Soviet Union. And while the outside world perceived the changes that took place during Raúl Castro’s tenure to be signs the Revolution’s socialist model was fading, Clayfield proves guerrillerismo remained an important anchor for the new regime. By weaving the guerrilla ethos into the fabric of Cuban identity, the government has garnered legitimacy for the political authority of former guerrilleros, even decades after the end of armed conflicts. The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution chronicles how guerrilla rhetoric has allowed the Revolution to adapt and transform over time while appearing to remain true to its founding principles. It also raises the question of just how long this discourse can sustain the Revolution when its leaders are no longer veterans of the sierra, those guerrillas who participated in the armed struggle that brought them to power so many years ago.

Author : Suzanne Choo,Deb Sawch,Alison Villanueva,Ruth Vinz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811016738

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Educating for the 21st Century by Suzanne Choo,Deb Sawch,Alison Villanueva,Ruth Vinz Pdf

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.