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Inside Jamaican schools / Hyacinth Evans.

By: Publication details: Barbados : University of the West Indies Press, 2001.Description: 164 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9766400970
  • 9789766400972
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370/.97292 21
  • 370.7292 Ja Eva
LOC classification:
  • LA496 .E93 2001
Contents:
Ch. 1. Schools and Schooling -- Ch. 2. Theoretical Perspectives: Approaches to Understanding and Studying Schools -- Ch. 3. Inside Classrooms: Teachers, Students and Authority -- Ch. 4. The Curriculum and Teaching: What Schools and Classrooms Teach and How It Is Taught -- Ch. 5. Streaming and Its Effects on Students -- Ch. 6. Language in the Classroom -- Ch. 7. Gender in the School Setting -- Ch. 8. Toward Better Schools for All.
Summary: George Beckford left the Caribbean region, and the underdeveloped world in general, an extraordinary body of work that spanned his career as economics professor, advisor to governments, and consultant to international organizations. "George Beckford's work is characterized by a remarkable consistency of purpose and vision . . . [This collection presents] the unfolding of George Beckford's work from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of 'man space', to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation . . . His purpose was to reveal the legacy of dispossession originating in the slave plantation experience of African people in the New World; to 'free the mind' from the internalization of attitudes of inferiority and 'Afro-Saxon' mimicry. His vision was the affirmation of the culture of 'overcoming' rooted in the Caribbean 'peasantry' and the land". Introduction.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.

Ch. 1. Schools and Schooling -- Ch. 2. Theoretical Perspectives: Approaches to Understanding and Studying Schools -- Ch. 3. Inside Classrooms: Teachers, Students and Authority -- Ch. 4. The Curriculum and Teaching: What Schools and Classrooms Teach and How It Is Taught -- Ch. 5. Streaming and Its Effects on Students -- Ch. 6. Language in the Classroom -- Ch. 7. Gender in the School Setting -- Ch. 8. Toward Better Schools for All.

George Beckford left the Caribbean region, and the underdeveloped world in general, an extraordinary body of work that spanned his career as economics professor, advisor to governments, and consultant to international organizations. "George Beckford's work is characterized by a remarkable consistency of purpose and vision . . . [This collection presents] the unfolding of George Beckford's work from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of 'man space', to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation . . . His purpose was to reveal the legacy of dispossession originating in the slave plantation experience of African people in the New World; to 'free the mind' from the internalization of attitudes of inferiority and 'Afro-Saxon' mimicry. His vision was the affirmation of the culture of 'overcoming' rooted in the Caribbean 'peasantry' and the land". Introduction.

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