Numeracy And Literacy In Cuba

For those who learned to read and write during the campaign, and for those who do so in
Cuban schools today, literacy and numeracy are powerfully linked to specific political content.
While this is not unique to Cuba, the relatively recent establishment of a universal nationalized curriculum provides a remarkably discrete period for analysis in which specific ideological objectives were disseminated in a highly transparent way. This article has sketched the politics and content of revolutionary education in Cuba over the past half century, arguing that in effect, the literacy campaign has never ended and indeed continues in earnest today. Working with the notion of literacy, broadly conceived, this article argues the campaign was the vanguard political …show more content…
Following the adage that to give a person a fish is to feed her for a day, while to teach her to fish is to feed her for life, Cubans were indeed taught to fish but only for particular fish in particular