L'éducation dans la révolution: Le système éducatif cubain depuis la crise des années 1990

Philippe Bayart, Rémy Herrera and Eric Mulot
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Philippe Bayart: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne
Eric Mulot: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: Education constitutes one of the fundamental axes of the Cuban socialist development project and one of the means of achieving the goal of equality. In that country, the educational system has the purpose to call into question the capitalist division of labour, as well as the social division resulting from it. The principles which direct the educational policies in Cuba are universalism, exemption from payment and the public character of education. Their application has made it possible to build in the island one of the best educational systems in the world in terms of access and quality. To what extend the dramatic crisis following the dissolution of USSR put at evil the educational sector in Cuba? In Latin America, the educational services were severely affected by the recent capitalist crises. Nevertheless, Cuba knew to preserve the pillars of its educational system. However, the huge changes occuring in Cuba since the 1990's involved educational transformations, to be explained

Keywords: Education; development; social spending; training; employment; equality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I21 I28 J24 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2006-04
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