Literacy Education and Dialogical Exchange: Impressions of Cuban Education in One Classroom.

Worthman, Christopher; Kaplan, Lourdes

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Publication Date: 2001

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Literacy Education and Dialogical Exchange: Impressions of Cuban Education in One Classroom.

Worthman, Christopher; Kaplan, Lourdes

Reading Teacher, v54 n7 p648-56 Apr 2001

Glimpses the literacy education practices of one third-grade Cuban teacher in a primary school in Havana. Speculates on relationships between Cuban educational practice and the Cuban socioeconomic system, including a historical analysis of Cuban literacy education since 1959. Finds high rote mastery of skills at the expense of creating a critical space in the classroom for dialogue and action. (SR)

Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Literacy, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Primary Education, Social History, Social Influences, Socioeconomic Influences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Cuba

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