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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
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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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
Author: Rosi Smith Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137583061 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 278
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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: Mark Abendroth Publisher: Litwin Books ISBN: 1936117398 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 196
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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.
Author: Denise F. Blum Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292739524 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 287
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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: Takkara K. Brunson Publisher: University of Florida Press ISBN: 9781683403739 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Illuminating the activism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary period Association of Black Women Historians Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black women's engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives. Brunson demonstrates that between the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba and the 1959 Revolution, Black women--without formal political power--navigated political movements in their efforts to create a more just society. She examines how women helped build a Black public sphere as they claimed moral respectability and sought racial integration. She reveals how Black women entered into national women's organizations, labor unions, and political parties to bring about legal reforms. Brunson shows how women of African descent achieved individual victories as part of a collective struggle for social justice; in doing so, she highlights how racism and sexism persisted even as legal definitions of Cuban citizenship evolved.
Author: Eva Aboagye Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487506376 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 338
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Drawing on contemporary global events, this book highlights how global citizenship education can be used to critically educate about the complexity and repressive nature of global events and our collective role in creating a just world.
Author: Wolfram Schulz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319739638 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 243
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This open access book presents the results from the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). Using data from 24 countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America, the study investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. It also responds to the enduring and emerging challenges of educating young people in a world where contexts of democracy and civic participation continue to change. New developments of this kind include the increase in the use of social media by young people as a tool for civic engagement, growing concerns about global threats and sustainable development, as well as the role of schools in fostering peaceful ways of interaction between young people. Besides enabling the evaluation of a wide range of aspects of civic and citizenship education, including those related to recent developments in a number of countries, the inclusion of test and questionnaire material from the first cycle of the study in 2009 allows the results from ICCS 2016 to be used to examine changes in civic knowledge, attitudes and engagement over seven years.
Author: Divina Frau-Meigs Publisher: Council of Europe ISBN: 928718528X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 82
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Supporting children and young people to participate safely, effectively, critically and responsibly in a world filled with social media and digital technologies is a priority for educators the world over. Most young people in Europe today were born and have grown up in the digital era. Education authorities have the duty to ensure that these digital citizens are fully aware of the norms of appropriate behaviour when using constantly evolving technology and participating in digital life. Despite worldwide efforts to address such issues, there is a clear need for education authorities to take the lead on digital citizenship education and integrate it into school curricula. In 2016, the Education Department of the Council of Europe began work to develop new policy orientations and strategies to help educators face these new challenges and to empower young people by helping them to acquire the competences they need to participate actively and responsibly in digital society. This volume, the first in a Digital Citizenship Education series, reviews the existing academic and policy literature on digital citizenship education, highlighting definitions, actors and stakeholders, competence frameworks, practices, emerging trends and challenges. The inclusion of a wide selection of sources is intended to ensure sufficient coverage of what is an emergent topic that has yet to gain a strong foothold in either education or academic literature, but has received wider policy attention.
Author: Denise F. Blum Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292722605 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
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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: Meghan McGlinn Manfra Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118787072 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 656
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The Wiley Handbook of Social Studies Research is a wide-ranging resource on the current state of social studies education. This timely work not only reflects on the many recent developments in the field, but also explores emerging trends. This is the first major reference work on social studies education and research in a decade An in-depth look at the current state of social studies education and emerging trends Three sections cover: foundations of social studies research, theoretical and methodological frameworks guiding social studies research, and current trends and research related to teaching and learning social studies A state-of-the-art guide for both graduate students and established researchers Guided by an advisory board of well-respected scholars in social studies education research
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Author: Rosi Smith
Author: Mark Abendroth
Author: Denise F. Blum
Author: Takkara K. Brunson
Author: Eva Aboagye
Author: Wolfram Schulz
Author: Divina Frau-Meigs
Author: Denise F. Blum
Author: Meghan McGlinn Manfra