Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values

<p>Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools <i>Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values</i> 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.</p> <p>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 <i>Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values</i> brims with surprising findings about one of the most intriguing social experiments in recent history.</p>