The history of pre-university education in Las Tunas from 1971 to 2000 as an identifying element of local culture

Abstract

At present, there are insufficient studies focused on the history of education in Las Tunas. Consequently, this problem is an attempt against the formation of a local educational identity in teachers and students, which expresses a contradiction between the need for a greater identification with the local historical traditions of these and the insufficiency of their historical knowledge about the evolution of pre-university education in the revolutionary stage. From the approach of this contradiction it was determined to carry out the analysis of the evolution of pre-university education as an identity element of the local culture of the province of Las Tunas from 1971 to 2000. The dialectical-materialist approach inherent to the Marxist-Leninist Philosophy in its double character of theory and scientific method of knowledge, is the main way in the proposed objective and governs the processes of analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and the historical-logical method. In addition, bibliographic sources were consulted and interviews were conducted. This work contributes to the History of Education, especially to the historical-educational studies referred to pre-university education in the Cuban context.