Course for educators pushes communist indoctrination on Concordia campus
The course by a Concordia University student union examines Cuba, the Soviet Union, Tanzania, and Iran using public education to spur a communist revolution.
A Concordia University-affiliated student union is hosting a course for educators that praises communist the “revolutionary pedagogy” of communist dictatorships like Cuba and the Soviet Union.
The course, run by Remaking Education as Care, Emancipation, Struggle, and Solidarity (RECESS) in partnership with Socialist Unity, explores education models from Cuba, the Soviet Union, Iran and Tanzania. According to the promotional material, participants will examine how education can be used to sustain “revolutionary social transformation.”
One section of the course focuses on Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign in Cuba.
The course description states that “literacy instructors,” including individuals with only a sixth-grade education, were relocated into rural family homes to address illiteracy. It also states that children as young as eight were expected to “work the family’s land” during the day and teach literacy lessons to illiterate farmers at night.
