Extra Credit: documentary on Cuban Education on Fri Feb 2

Post date: Jan 28, 2018 11:27:4 AM

Friday, Feb 2, 7:00 at Encuentro 5 close to the Park Street Station, next to the Orpheum Theatre at 9A Hamilton Place. Griselda Aguilera Cabrera was a seven-year-old teacher in Cuba’s 1961 Revolutionary Literacy Campaign, one of nine women featured in “Maestra,” the award-winning documentary whose synopsis begins: “250,000 volunteer teachers joined the national literacy campaign. Almost half of them were under 18 and over half of them were women. Together they taught a nation to read and write – and their lives would never be the same.” Now retired from her career as an educator, Griselda works with the Cuban Psychology Society’s Working Group on Identity and Diversity. We plan to show the 32-minute documentary at the beginning of the program. Griselda will talk on Cuban education then and now and entertain questions about a wide range of topics. This program is co-sponsored by the Boston Latino International Film Festival. For more information about the July26.org Cuba solidarity group: https://july26.org/

For extra credit, respond to these questions in detailed, vibrant paragraphs: 1) What did you see/feel/experience at the event? Who attended? Who presented? Were the populations different? 2) What did you already know about and what did you learn about the Cuban education system? And the national literacy campaign? 3) What skills and beliefs led Griselda and others to join the campaign? What led to their success? Which of these skills and beliefs do you share, and how do or would you use them for societal change? 4) What questions are you left with?