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Revolution in Education: China and Cuba in Global Context, 1957-76
- Journal of World History
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 14, Number 3, September 2003
- pp. 359-391
- 10.1353/jwh.2003.0031
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Revolutionary movements in China and Cuba gained worldwide attention for their attempts to restructure education in the light of new social values. China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and Cuba's Revolutionary Offensive (1968-1970), while developed separately, experimented with remarkably similar programs of integration of workwith study that largely dismantled the preceding educational systems. Here the authors argue that these communist campaigns also fit within a worldwide postcolonial critique of education seen as privileging urban and elite values. The Chinese and Cuban experiments were abandoned as failures, but the aspiration they expressed still exists and has been echoed in many other places.