ERIC Number: EJ1431025
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0819-8691
EISSN: EISSN-2054-5649
For a Bright Future. Cuban Nuclear Engineers Studying in Late Socialist Hungary
History of Education Review, v53 n1 p28-44 2024
Purpose: This research aims to contribute to History of Education Studies as well as to New Cold War Studies, by examining a Reactor Technology Specialist Engineer program, launched in Hungary three times in the 1980s for Cuban nuclear engineers, graduates of the University of Havana. Design/methodology/approach: The institutional setting, the content of the program, the teaching staff, the students, and the outcomes are studied. The factors that motivated the birth of this special program are examined, including the following areas; (1) in what ways it was different from the courses in which foreign students participated in Hungary; (2) what its strengths and weaknesses were; (3) how we can learn from this past experience and what relevance it has for the present. Findings: The analysis - carried out within the context of Cuban-Hungarian relations in the Cold War - demonstrates that these two satellite countries used the fields of science and education to widen their international possibilities and at the same time to reinforce their national interests by cooperating with each other. Originality/value: The investigation is based on archival sources, university yearbooks and journals as well as contemporary Hungarian press. Written sources were complemented by interviews with Cuban students and Hungarian teaching staff, thus providing a personal perspective, balancing official views.
Descriptors: Cubans, Engineering Education, Study Abroad, Nuclear Energy, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Graduates, Outcomes of Education, Comparative Education, Program Descriptions, International Relations, International Cooperation, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, College Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hungary; Cuba
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