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Measuring and certifying skill and competence in the Caribbean: Some conceptual and practical issues
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2013)
This article tries to look deeply at skill and competence, hoping to unearth pitfalls that might obstruct the way of those who are striving towards the development of a Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) system of ...
Online-learning and its utility to higher education in the Anglophone Caribbean
(SAGE, 2014-10)
This theoretical article uses the extant literature to define online learning, weigh its effects on teaching and learning, and examine its utility in higher education within the English-speaking Caribbean. Online learning ...
Defining best practice: Contextual relevance in the Caribbean [PowerPoint]
(2015-07-15)
The word "best" is heavily value laden and, therefore, "best practice" can only be discussed within a particular context; in this instance, higher education in the Caribbean. The Strategic Plan for the Caribbean Community ...
Building creative capacity for the 21st century: Implications for Caribbean education of the UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education and the CCFA Conference on Societies in Crisis
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
This presentation comments on emerging themes of the World Conference on Arts Education 2006
Culturing environmental education in the Caribbean
(2002)
This paper presents a detailed description and analysis of one aspect of the lives of villagers of a coastal Caribbean community--their knowledge of, and interaction with, the marine environment. Using the grounded theory ...
Inhibiting Education Reform
(Daily Express, 2007-05)
This article identifies some of the factors inhibiting educational reform in the Caribbean region, and argues that unless governments in the region find ways and means of addressing these factors, the goals of the education ...
New Agendas for Caribbean Education
(Daily Express, 2007-04)
This article welcomes the theme of the Biennial Conference in Education taking place at the St. Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), namely, "Reconceptualising the Agenda for Education in the ...
Sign it in; sign it out, up and down the Caribbean: Preparing the deaf for CSME
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
This study compared signs for words that are distinctly Caribbean, and investigated the perspectives of educators of the Deaf on the differences in signs among the islands. The findings indicate that the limits that ...
Survival, Planning, and Education in the Caribbean
(Daily Express, 2004-10)
This article calls for a shift in the traditional approach to teacher development in order to address the political, economic, technological, and social problems facing the Caribbean region
Challenges of Inclusive Schooling
(Daily Express, 2004-05)
The author examines the topic of inclusive schooling against the background of personal experiences as a graduate student in a foreign university and as a teacher educator in the Caribbean. The article suggests that the ...