Talk:Cuban literacy campaign

Proposing Edits soon

I plan to add some more information in some sections like the ones regarding women and militarization. I'm still gathering sources and getting a plan together, so I'll be updating this as I go but I just wanted to put some sources on here I have gathered already.

Davidson Abel, Carolyn, and Charles Frederick Abel. 2017. “Early Literacy in Cuba: Lessons For America.” Texas Journal of Literacy Education 5, no. 1 (Summer): 33-43. Gonzalez, Jose P. Gonzalez, and Raul Reyes Velazquez. “Desarrollo de la Educacion en Cuba Despues del año 1959.” Actualidades Investigativas en Educacion 9, no. 2 (August) 1-28. Herman, Rebecca. 2012. “An Army of Educators: Gender, Revolution, and the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961.” Gender & History 24, no. 1, (April) 93-111. Kempf, Arlo. 2014. “The Cuban Literacy Campaign at 50 Formal and Tacit Learning in Revolutionary Education.” Critical Education 5, no. 4, 1-21. Serra, Ana. 2001. “The Literacy Campaign in the Cuban Revolution and the Transformation of Identity in the Liminal Space of the Sierra.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 10, no.1, 131-141.

Paulacano12 (talk) 21:11, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 September 2020 and 8 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Paulacano12.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 August 2019 and 6 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kskornyes. Peer reviewers: Gorditagirl21, Harald Northbruk, HMSAudacious.

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Proposed Edits for Page

I plan to add more information to the organization section to offer more clarity as to how such a feat was achieved and improve understanding of the mechanisms that were at play that made the campaign a functional program. The initial background section needs some revision and clarification as to how what is mentioned plays into the rest of the article.
The Challenges section has a very accusatory tone and lacks context, while offers an idea of the challenges that they faced, it over-represents the militant counter-revolutionary groups that targeted the organization and leaves out key information regarding the conflict. For example, it does not explain if they had an issue with just the propaganda or the organization and effort to improve Cuban literacy as a whole.
The tone overall needs to be a little more neutral so some change to the wording and adding more information from a slightly less biased perspective to improve the reliability of the page as a source of information.
The sources I plan to use are as follows:

1. Leiner, Marvin (1987), "The 1961 National Cuban Literacy Campaign", National Literacy Campaigns, Springer US, pp. 173–196, ISBN 9781489905079, retrieved 2019-09-30
2. Griffiths, T. G., & Williams, J. (2017). Mass schooling for socialist transformation in Cuba and Venezuela. In International Critical Pedagogy Reader (pp. 64-72). Routledge.
3. Jonathan Kozol (1978) A New Look at the Literacy Campaign in Cuba. Harvard Educational Review: September 1978, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 341-377.
4. Lorenzetto, A., & Neijs, K. (1968). The Cuban literacy campaign. Convergence, 1(3), 46.
5. Herman, R. (2012). An army of educators: Gender, revolution and the Cuban literacy campaign of 1961. Gender & History, 24(1), 93-111.
6. Prieto, A. (1981). Cuba's National Literacy Campaign. Journal of Reading, 25(3), 215-221. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40029025

Kskornyes (talk) 02:33, 18 October 2019 (UTC)Kskornyes

Link to the Spanish page?

For some reason there's no link to the Spanish article on the side, but here it is: http://es.wiki.x.io/wiki/Campa%C3%B1a_Nacional_de_Alfabetizaci%C3%B3n_en_Cuba — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.153.18.122 (talk) 12:10, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I've added it to the page, as well as the Hebrew one and the Norwegian one. For implementation details see Help:Interwiki linking. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{(have a chat)} 12:51, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Straight from castro's mouth

Wow this post comes entirely from the communist poin of view. Phewww!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.37.249.164 (talk) 21:05, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

On the general Cuba page it has literacy before the revolution at 80% and here it is 60-70%. Should we work to make that statistic consistent? Make2018 (talk) 20:54, 2 February 2017 (UTC)make2018

Peer Review

The proposed edits and critique of the article itself is very insightful and makes me excited to read the finished product. Considering the article is not as bare-boned as other articles, focusing on the organization section is a good use of the assignment because it is the section that can be most improved on. The edits for the challenge section fit with the Wikipedia guidelines! The sources that are being planned to be used seem unbiased and well-sourced! Can't wait for the final product! Gorditagirl21 (talk) 22:37, 21 October 2019 (UTC)