Guantanamo, Cuba.- The 10th Encounter Guantanamo-Dominican Republic Educators began today its debates on the historical and cultural experiences of the pedagogical processes in the Caribbean nations.

The event, sponsored by the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba, the Association of Educators of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Coauspice of the University of Guantánamo (UG), the Provincial Directorate of Education, the José Martí Cultural Society and the National Union of Historians from Cuba, will meet here until the next March 28.

The UG will host the meeting, whose slogan is ‘Culture, history, identity. For a Latin American and Caribbean pedagogy of excellence’. Its objective is to consolidate the academic exchange between professionals and institutions of both nations.

More than fifty papers, related to the linguistic identity between the Dominican variant of Spanish and that of the eastern region of Cuba, the Dominican presence in this area and the treatment of Franco-Haitian dances in arts education on the island, will be discussed in the work sessions.

Family, rurality, violence, and disability, are some of the topics that will be discussed, as well as some pedagogical studies about socio-productive projects, motivational sphere, communication with deaf schoolchildren, the culture of peace and prevention, and use of audiovisual and computer resources, among others.

The scientific program also includes a panel on the negative impact of the naval base established by the United States, illegally usurping for more than a century part of the territory of this province against the will of the people.