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Por La Escuela Cubana En Cuba Libre: Themes in the History of Primary Por la Escuela Cubana en Cuba Ubre: Themes in the History of Primary and Secondary Education in Cuba, 1899-1958 Submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in History University College London by Laurie Johnston ProQuest Number: 10018652 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest. ProQuest 10018652 Published by ProQuest LLC(2016). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 ABSTRACT OF THESIS This thesis examines the educational system in Cuba between 1899 and 1958, specifically primary and secondary schooling, with occasional reference to teacher training £Uid non-formal programmes. It explores the relationship between education and Cuban political economy, demonstrating how expectations of education determined demands upon the state, how the educational system was affected by the interplay between external influences and domestic pressures and in what ways it reflected national concerns and debates. Chapters one and two investigate the role that independentistas expected education to play in an independent Cuba and how the intervention of the United States affected the foundation of the system of public education. Chapters three, four and five analyse why the system became a focus of national anxiety in the 1920s, the ways in which those anxieties were manifested during the crisis of the early 1930s and how the government used rural education in its campaign to pacify the island following the "revolution” of 1933 and the national strike of 1935. Chapters six and seven explore the impact of the Constitution of 1940 and the condition of the educational system as the revolutionary struggle commenced in 1953. The major themes addressed by this research are the relationship between education and nationalism, and between education, capitalism and dependence. The faith placed by liberals in the power of public education to forge nationeil consciousness and to foster development is considered in the context of the principal characteristics of pre-revolutionary Cuba: its monocrop economy, significant class divisions and unequal relationship with the United States. The thesis concludes that these structural constraints prevented the educational system from realizing expectations. Furthermore, the vision of education held dear by Cubans could not be achieved without radical political and economic transformation. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 4 Introduction 6 I Education and the Dream of Cuba Libre 12 II Cuban Education and U.S. Intervention, 1899-1909 19 III Educational Decline and National Response, 1909-1924 49 IV The Struggle for Change, 1924-1934 78 V Protest, Repression and Educational Reform, 1934-1940 107 VI The Limits of Educational Reform, 1940-1952 130 VII Dictatorship, Stagnation and Armed Struggle, 1952-1958 157 VIII Education, Revolution and Cuba Ubre 170 Bibliography 178 List of Tables Table 1 Percentage of literates ten years old and over by race and sex 175 Table 2 Percentage of literates ten years old and over by province 176 Table 3 Percentage of literates 1953 ten years old and over, urban and rural, by province 177 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project could not, of course, have been undertaken without financial assistance. The Central Research Fund of the University of London, the History Department and Graduate School of University College London, and the Roger Brew Fund all generously contributed to my research trips to Cuba. I am very grateful to them for their assistance. My visits to Cuba were notable for the encouragement and support I received there. From the employees of the Federaciôn de Mujeres Cubanas who housed and fed me, to the librarians who assisted me on a daily basis, I was overwhelmed by the generosity of the Cubzms and their enthusiasm for my work. Nancy Machado Lorenzo, Marlene Valdés Borrero and the other librarians of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martf were an invaluable source of assistance. Tomâs Femândez Robaina went out of his way to find and supply me with books to build my own collection. Marta Gonzalez, the daughter of Diego Gonzalez y Gutiérrez, and her son Pedro Pablo, generously allowed me access to their father/grandfather's documents. For this introduction I am grateful to Jon Lee Anderson. He and his family adopted me during one stay in Cuba, and made Sunday a day to look forward to. I also spent a fruitful afternoon in discussion with Professor Josefina Meza, who is coordinating a Cuban research project on education before the revolution, and I benefited greatly from her insights. I am grateful to Louis Pérez Jr. for his suggestions early in the project, which kept me on track. John Kirk provided enthusiastic support and helpful advice throughout. Charlotte Crow proved to be an inspiring editor as I prepared an article for the August 1995 issue of History Today^ in which some of this material first appeared. As writing commenced, several people read and reread the material I produced and offered insightful criticism, particularly Christopher Abel, Mary Turner, Nicola Miller and Philip Kolvin; their thoughts were invaluable in the process of clarifying my own. Christopher Abel provided outstanding supervision. He was unfailingly generous with his time and attention, and his humour and moral support buoyed my confidence. His foresight, guidance, advice and assistance were crucial to the completion of this work. I am deeply indebted to him for all he has done. I have also been encouraged by family and friends. Among them, Shirley Chapman, Lois Reynolds and Fiona Plowman retained unshakeable conviction that I would complete this work and do it well. Fiona, William and Charlotte Hodson, with great kindness and sympathy, brightened otherwise lonely days of writing. As always, my family - Johnstons, Laidlaws and Kolvins - supported me. Robin Johnston took time out of a well deserved holiday to proofread the frnal draft. Philip Kolvin, my husband, gave me strength and spirit for this project, as for everything; he is the source of so much of the passion and peace which fuel my life. The merits of this thesis owe much to all the people who have encouraged me throughout, and particularly to those who considered and commented on the work. The faults, needless to say, are exclusively my own. Finally, very special thanks to Mary Turner who has supported me without fail since my undergraduate years. She has listened to me, lectured me, fed and watered me, sympathized, read, criticized, comforted, applauded, questioned, and generally ensured that I kept an energetic and positive outlook. Her commitment extended to joining me in Cuba, a special time which I shall never forget Words simply cannot express my gratitude and my appreciation for all she has done. This work is dedicated to her, as one small way of saying thank you. Introduction In the non-industrialized country, the school is an institution that not only keeps the individual from self-definition but keeps the entire society from defining itself.^ What might an examination of primary and secondary education in Cuba between 1899 and 1958 reveal? As an historian rather than an educationalist, my interests lie in considering the relationship between education and the larger society during this period, and determining its significance, rather than in making a specific probe into pedagogical technique. In particular, I wish to ascertain what part education played in generating or hindering the process which culminated in the Cuban revolution in 1959. Consequently, I have chosen to explore the connections between education and the Cuban political economy, rather than specifically educational matters. What is the relationship between the state and society which influences the function and content of education7^ How do perceptions of education's role in society and its ability to fulfil expectations influence demands on the state? The period between 1899 and 1958 is the setting for some of the formative events in the development of Cuban national consciousness. The growth of nationalism, the spread of communism, the development of the labour movement, the "revolution" of 1933, the democratic facade of the 1940s and the island's relationship with the United States all contributed to this process. Many of the causes of the revolution of 1959, what has informed its evolution, and the length of its survival, lie in this earlier period. Much of the historiography concentrates on the revolution and the insurrection which immediately preceded it, and thus begins in 1952, with Fulgencio Batista's coup, or 1953, with the attack on the Moncada barracks. Nonetheless, some good surveys of the republican period have been written. Some of the best articles seeking to explain the revolution reach back into Cuba's past;^ particular attention has been paid to the relationship with the United States, the sugar economy, Machado's presidency and the revolution of 1933.^ Aspects of ^ Martin Camoy, Education as Cultural Imperialism (New York: David McKay, 1974), p. 72. ^ See Mary K. Vaughan, The State, Education and Social Class in Mexico, 1880-1928 (DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Ulinois University Press, 1982), p. 1. ^ See, for example, Robin Blackburn, "Prologue to the Cuban Revolution", New Left Review, no. 21 (October 1963), pp. 52-91; James Petras, "The Working Class and the Cuban Revolution" in James F. Petras, et. al.. Class, State and Power in the Third World with Case Studies on Class Conflict in Latin America (London: Zed Press, 1981), pp. 193-221; Hugh Thomas, "Middle Class Politics and the Cuban Revolution" in Claudio Veliz, ed.
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