Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity

Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity
Author: Rosi Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-07-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137583061

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.