Rosi Smith

Deepening Participation (eBook, ePUB)

The impact of Cuba's local university centres

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using testimony from students and teachers in mountainous Granma province, this book assesses the legacy of Cuba's experiment with mass local higher education in the 2000s. It highlights the interconnectedness of individual and collective change, the importance of situated pedagogy and its impact on communities' material and cultural development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636672779
• Artikelnr.: 72266131

Autorenporträt

Dr. Rosi Smith is Senior Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University. A former Leverhulme fellow, she is the author of EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP AND CUBAN IDENTITY, and works on inclusion and participation, most recently as lead investigator on an AHRC-funded UK-Cuba disability network.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction: A new kind of university - Inclusion and exclusion in Cuban universities, 1728-2001 - The context for change in Granma Province - Re-integrating youth - Rebuilding communities - 'They saw us as family' - Gender, social change and the university - Communities of culture - How should the local universities be judged? - Local development and the future of Cuba's local university centres - Conclusion: Why being local matters - Afterword: Cuba's local university centres in the pandemic - Appendix A - List of interviews - Appendix B - Post-graduate destinations (Students from Granma who had completed their degrees at the time of interview) - Index.

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