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Decolonized Cuba? Challenging racial and cultural discrimination through education
MALCOLM RICHARDS reports back from a recent NEU delegation to Cuba
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IN October 2018, I was selected as one of 25 teachers from across England and Wales to visit Cuba as part of a National Education Union delegation.
I was keen to engage in exchanges of pedagogy, cultural exchange and solidarity with all colleagues and comrades.
As a black educator working within a hostile environment, I wanted to explore how Cuban education could offer inspiration, to my union and its members, in challenging the daily discrimination faced by black and ethnic minority educators.
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