Cuban technical and professional education in agriculture and cattle raising: the work as central element

We analyzed the Cuban technical and professional education in agriculture and cattle raising, mainly by the experience of the offering of technical and higher education teaching courses of Education in the specialties of agriculture and cattle raising, an educational model that counts with a long tradition in the field. The objective of this research was to revisit the historical trajectory of technical and professional education in agriculture and cattle raising and the transformations after the 1959 revolution. We describe the implementation of the Cuban socialist proposal, the agrarian reform and the transformations of the educational system. Also, the contributions of José Martí’s ideals on the restructuration of the educational proposals among the pedagogical principles of integral formation and to labor life, patriotism, citizenship, moral and the values relating education with productive work, the influence of Russian education and Marxist-Leninist principles on building a unique educational system centralized on work, with a massive and gratuitous character.