The capacity to share: a study of Cuba's international cooperation in educational development

This discussion of Cuba's international policies in education shows how Cuba shares its educational resources with other countries. The postcolonial critique underlying the book explores Cuba's role in relation to how the disengagement from colonial legacies in education is taking place in many countries. ROSEMARY PRESTONDirector of the International Centre for Continuing Education (INCED) at the University of Warwick, UK. ANNE HICKLING-HUDSONAssociate professor of International and Cross-cultural education in Australia at the Queensland University of Technology's School of Cultural and Language Studies, Faculty of Education. JORGE CORONA GONZALEZ teaches Political Economy at the University of Havana, Cuba. A former president of the Pedagogical Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean, he is currently special advisor on International Collaboration in Cuba's Ministry of Education, and a member of the UNESCO Chair in Educational Sciences. INDICE: PART I: THE GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL CRISIS, INTERNATIONAL AID, AND SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION: THE ROLE OF CUBA - Global Educational Underdevelopment and the Role of Aid;'A.Hickling-Hudson, J.Corona Gonzalez '&'S.Lehr' - The Solidarity Approach: South-South Cooperation and Cuba's International Role in Health & Education; 'A.Hickling-Hudson, J.Corona Gonzalez'&' S.Lehr; with M.Majoli' - Cuba's Education System: a Foundation for 'the Capacity to Share';'E.Martín Sabina, J.Corona Gonzalez'&' A.Hickling-Hudson' - PART II: STUDYING IN CUBA; RETURNING HOME TO WORK - International Students in Cuban Universities and Colleges; 'F.Martinez Perez' - The Children of the Isle of Youth: How Ghanaian Students Learned to Cope with 'Anything in Life';'S.Lehr' - Studying in Cuba; Returning Home to Work. The Experience of Graduates from the English-speaking Caribbean;'A.Hickling-Hudson' - Destinations of Africans After Study in Cuba: the Namibian Experience;'R.Preston' - PART III: CUBAN EDUCATORS OVERSEAS - The Cuban Internationalist Mission in Education. The Example of Angola 1976-1991; 'C.Hatzky' - Educational Administration and University Management: Cuban Collaboration in Latin America;'B.Trista Perez' - Cubans Teaching Overseas;'A.Hickling-Hudson' - Cuba's Contribution to Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Peace-building in Timor-Leste; 'B.Boughton '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-33880-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés