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.
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