Cuban literacy teaching method highlighted at ALBA

[Mika]

Cuban literacy teaching method highlighted at ALBA
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/951218.html

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 14 (acn) Cuba's "Yes I Can" literacy teaching program, successfully boosted by Cuba and Venezuela in 26 countries, aspires to reach the figure of five million people taught how to read and write by the end of this year.

Participants at a meeting of top education officials of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) nations underway in Venezuela, are promoting more effective actions that allow the peoples of the region to eradicate illiteracy or reduce it to minimum levels, Juventud Rebelde newspaper reports.

The ministers from Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Venezuela are examining, among other mechanisms, the Grand National Project for Literacy Teaching and Post-Literacy Teaching, by internationalizing the Cuban Yes I Can method and Venezuela's Robinson Mission.

Also serving as reference are the results obtained by Cuba and Venezuela in education. The two nations have joined efforts so Bolivia could be a territory free of illiteracy and for Nicaragua to achieve the same goal over the next few months.

More here --> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/951218.html

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Viva Cuba!

[biopowertoday]

1. Its great to see this. Thanks for the post.

[ensho]

2. US kids are in emergency mode over reading and writing

wonder if Obama's education team includes the Cuban/Ven. method?

thanks for the article.

[Mika]

3. Another reason US/Cuba normalization needs to be undertaken.

Cubans survived through serious crisis during the post USSR collapse era- in losing their #1 trade partner. This time period 1994-1999 is referred to in Cuba as "the special period".

Even though there were serious shortages, NO Cubans were thrown into the streets due to foreclosure. Cuba built more schools. Cuba expanded its medical infrastructure- building more local clinics and hospitals. They marshalled their meager resources effectively and directed them towards their most needy and the children.

Cubans did this by working together, not at odds with each other and their government.

[espiral]

6. re:

Couldn't have said it better myself. :)

[mix]

4. what is this method?

i haven't been able to find anything about its pedagogy, it sounds interesting

[Igel]

5. It misses step 1: Definition.

"Literacy" has no simple definition, none universally agreed upon.

Literacy from the 1850s literacy wouldn't get you out of 3rd grade.

http://groups.ku.edu/~stl/historyofliteracy.htm