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Pedagogy 2011
A meeting of friendship and
scientific exchange
Olga Díaz Ruiz
WE educators come to this meeting
for unity with a complex, but at the same time,
hopeful panorama in the region, coinciding with the
50th anniversary of Cuba being declared a territory
free of illiteracy. The progressive and
revolutionary governments of Venezuela, Bolivia,
Nicaragua and Ecuador, with the help of our
educators, have taught more than five million people
to read and write.
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More than 3,000
delegates from 20 countries
are participating in this 12th Congress.
Photo: Juvenal Balán
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That was affirmed by Cuban Education
Minister Ena Elsa Velázquez during her opening
lecture "The challenge for education: the future of
Latin American and Caribbean nations," given to
3,000-plus representatives from Latin America and
other countries meeting in Havana’s Karl Marx
Theater for the 12th Pedagogy Conference 2011.
She informed the delegates from
close to 20 nations attending the event, that in the
two last years the Cuban Revolution has undertaken a
broad plan of transformations in the sector, aimed
at achieving a general educational training which
will also contribute to the country’s productive
development.
At the opening session of the
meeting of friendship and scientific-pedagogical
exchange, which continues through January 28 in
Havana’s International Conference Center, the
minister emphasized that today —in the midst of the
process of updating the Cuban economic model— the
principal challenge for education is "to have
sufficient and appropriately trained teachers to
develop the generations that, tomorrow, will
continue the socialist work of the Revolution."
This first day, graced with a
cultural gala presented by schools of arts, was also
attended by José Ramón Fernández, vice president of
the Council of Ministers; Political Bureau members
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, minister of higher
education, and Abel Prieto Jiménez, minister of
culture; Olga Lidia Tapia, member of the Secretariat
of the Central Committee of the Party; Armando Hart,
director of the Martí Program Office; and senior
representatives of the Cuban government and other
countries, as well as family members of the five
Cuban heroes.
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