Education in Central America and the Caribbean

List of contents

1. Editorial Introduction: The Caribbean Basin - A Realistic Regional Concept? Colin Brock 2. Formative Influences in Puerto Rican Education Donald Clarkson 3. The Cuban Educational Model and its Influence in the Caribbean Region Mark Richmond 4. Contemporary Issues in Jamaican Education Errol Miller 5. Education in the British Virgin Islands: Case Study of a Caribbean Micro State David Smawfield 6. The Politics of Adult Education in Central America: 1950-1980 Gonzalo Retamal 7. Education in the Largest City in The World: Mexico Guadalupe Gonzalez-Paredes And David Turner 8. The Evolution of the Costa Rican Education Profile Pilar Aguilar 9. Educational Reform in Venezuela: The 1980 Law Lilia Borrero And Eyra Jimenez

About the author

Colin Brock

Summary

Originally published in 1990. Assembling studies from diverse cultural and political traditions and networks, this book comprises a number of case studies ranging across the Caribbean region - Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands, Mexico City, Central America, Costa Rica and Venezuela.

Product details

• Authors: Colin (University of Oxford Brock
• Assisted by: Colin Brock (Editor), Colin (University of Oxford Brock (Editor), Brock Colin (Editor), Donald Clarkson (Editor), Clarkson Donald (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138544536
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54453-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Caribbean islands, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Central America, Mexico and Central America