The People's Professors of Cuba
How the Nation Achieved Education for All- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2018
Summary
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.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2018
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4985-5769-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4985-5770-2
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 188
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Ch01. The Curiosity That Led Me to Cuba No access Pages 1 - 8
- Ch02. Education in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba No access Pages 9 - 30
- Ch03. The Literacy Campaign No access Pages 31 - 54
- Ch04. Worker-Farmer Education No access Pages 55 - 64
- Ch05. Early Childhood Education and Preschool No access Pages 65 - 82
- Ch06. Secondary Schools and Beyond No access Pages 83 - 98
- C07. Nonformal Education in the Communities No access Pages 99 - 110
- Ch08. Educating the Educators No access Pages 111 - 132
- Ch09. The Next Revolution No access Pages 133 - 152
- Ch10. A Lot to Learn from Cuba! No access Pages 153 - 166
- Afterword. The University and I No access Pages 167 - 170
- Bibliography No access Pages 171 - 174
- Index No access Pages 175 - 186
- About the Author No access Pages 187 - 188





