Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles

Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles provides a contemporary survey of education development and key educational issues in the region. The chapters cover: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Saint Eustatius and Saint Maarteen), Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The book includes discussions of the impact of local, regional and global occurrences, including social, political and geographical events, on education systems and schooling in the region. As a whole, the book provides a comprehensive reference resource for contemporary education policies in the Caribbean, and explores some of the problems these countries face during the process of development. It is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

About the author

Emel Thomas is Lecturer in Education, Children and Young People, University of Northampton, UK.

Colin Brock was Honorary Professor of Education at the University of Durham, UK, and Visiting Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough, UK. He was also UNESCO Chair of Education as a Humanitarian Response at the University of Oxford, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Brock, Emel Thomas
• Assisted by: Colin Brock (Editor), Emel Thomas (Editor), Emel (University of Northampton Thomas (Editor), Thomas Emel (Editor), Colin Brock (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9781623563158
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-315-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Education Around the World; Education Around the World
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education; EDUCATION / General, Education, Caribbean islands