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Blum, Denise – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2008
As a participant-observer, the author relates observations, interviews, and surveys from her experience in a Cuban Escuela al Campo ("School to the Countryside," or EAC) camp located on a collective farm outside of the city of Havana. The Pioneers, the youth section of the official Cuban Communist Party, organize the EAC program…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Foreign Countries, Consciousness Raising, Junior High School Students
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Sanzare, James – Social Studies Journal, 1979
Describes Cuba's unique approach to indoctrinating high school students in communist beliefs. It places urban students in work-study schools in the countryside to separate them from (1) urban elitism and (2) family influence which conditions attitudes toward career goals. As a result, young adults are more willing to be sent wherever they are…
Descriptors: Communism, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Lutjens, Sheryl L. – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Annotated bibliography of 56 books, book chapters, journal articles, research reports, and government reports on education in Cuba, published 1971-97. Categories include general overviews; the 1960s; improvement policies and the 1970s; ongoing improvement, 1986-97; political economy issues; youth and socialization; power and people; and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change