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From Cuba with love
British special educational needs co-ordinator MAGGIE MORAN reflects on Cuba’s educational provision for students

Amor. Love. That is a word which, as a British special needs teacher, I cannot say has graced my head teacher’s lips during meetings about resources and support for my students.

And yet, during one school visit after another over the course of the NUT Cuba delegation programme, the word amor cropped up in the head teachers’ speeches as an important underlying principle guiding Cuban pedagogy.

Just take a moment to think about that concept: love as the bedrock of state policy.

  • Maggie Morgan is a Senco at a West Sussex secondary school, an NUT member and school rep.
  • Further reports from the NUT delegation’s visit to Cuba will be serialised in the Morning Star’s weekend editions.
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