PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bowles, Samuel
TI  - Cuban Education and the Revolutionary Ideology
AID  - 10.17763/haer.41.4.a154342585h3226l
DP  - 1971 Dec 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 472--500
VI  - 41
IP  - 4
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/41/4/472.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/41/4/472.full
SO  - herp1971 Dec 01; 41
AB  - The rapid transformation of society in revolutionary Cuba vitally involves education. The author argues that school and society are always closely linked; in pre-revolutionary Cuba, schooling helped reproduce the class structure of economy and society from one generation to the next. In Cuba today education is attempting to serve the four major objectives of the revolution: economic growth; escape from the economic, political, and cultural hegemony of the United States; attainment of an egalitarian society; and the transformation of work into a creative activity for a new socialist man. The campaign against illiteracy,the general expansion of schooling, and the extension of education to the fields and factories are among the facets of the educational program described. Professor Bowles concludes with a discussion of dilemmas in Cuban education.