Reading Room

Here you will find several online resources to assist in your teaching.

MAIN AREAS

Select from the following:

• Educational Journals
• Educational Mailing Lists
• Eric Digests

PAPERS

• Impact of Technology on the Teaching Learning process in the Caribbean: Experiences from Barbados and Jamaica
  
  
• The Classroom of the Future: Imperatives for Barbados
  
  
• Changes & Challenges: Final Report of the St. Mary's Primary School Educational Technology Research Project

• Barbados Teachers' handbook: The Scope Of The School's Authority. [1999?]
  Subject to the policy of the Minister and the general directions of the Board of Management the Headteacher is responsible for the discipline of the school (see S.17 of the Education Regulations 1982). The handbook deals with issues of discipline, including school attire, corporal punishment, suspension and expulsion and other forms of punishment
  
• Challenges to educators in a era of rapid globalisation. An address delivered on the occasion of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the Barbados Union of Teachers, April 17, 2001.
  Much of the current discussion pertaining to globalization at the local level conveys the impression that the phenomenon is something that emerged in the last decade or thereabout. It is my intention to remove this ill-informed notion from the thinking of anyone in my audience.
  
• GLOBALIZATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON EDUCATION: with special reference to Barbados. Third Annual John Cumberbatch Memorial Lecture. Organized by the Barbados Union of Teachers and delivered at the Barbados Workers' Union's Solidarity House, October 27, 1999
  This speech defines the terms "globalization" and "education" and discusses globalisation in the context of the trade union movement. Particular attention ispaid to the concept of flexibilization of work and how trade unions in Barbados should respond to globalization. The effects of globalization on primary and secondary schools, with special attention to EDUTECH 2000 and the issue of the computerization of classrooms is also examined.
  
• Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality Institute. October 2000
  The Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality and Tourism Institute, Trinidad Campus offers education and training in Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at the Associate Degree, Certificate and Vocational Levels. Programmes include Culinary Arts, Food and Beverage, Travel and Front Office Training. Other services include Catering, Placement and Consultancy.
  
• Education addresses - Jamaica (British Council). 1999
  Includes high schools and tertiary institutions. This list is not comprehensive, and should not be used as a mailing list for unsolicited promotional materials.
  
• Education addresses Trinidad (Bristish Council). 1999
  Includes secondary schools, both government and assisted, and tertiary institutions. The list is not comprehensive
  
• Education sector enhancement program. 1999
  The Education Sector Enhancement Program is designed to help the Ministry of Education in Barbados implement the education reform outlined in the 1995 White Paper.
  
• Communications & Information Technologies Brochure [2000?]
  The fundamental mission of COL is to create and widen access to learning opportunities in response to the development needs of Commonwealth countries, by means of the application of the techniques and technologies associated with distance education.The deployment of modern communications and information technologies can be a major instrument for widening access to education and training on a cost-effective basis, for enhancing its quality and its general contribution to people's social and economic betterment.
  
• The Commonwealth of Learning three year plan 2000-2003
  Recognising knowledge as key to cultural, social and economic development, The Commonwealth of Learning is committed to assisting Commonwealth member governments to take full advantage of open, distance and technology-mediated learning strategies to provide increased and equitable access to education and training for all their citizens.
  
• The American Community College of Haiti. January 1999
  A Project of The New Jersey/Haiti Partners of the Americas, Inc, the mission of which is to: To establish a comprehensive community college in Haiti, similar to those found in the United States.
  
• The UWI School of education. [2000]
  The School of Education at Cave Hill aims to be a centre of excellence with respect to teaching, research and human resource development in education for the Eastern Caribbean sub-region. A major challenge facing the School in pursuit of this overall goal is to maintain an optimal balance between these strands given its human resources
  
• CARIBBEAN: 'Education for All' Goal Eludes Regional Governments. March 2000
  Almost 10 years after the world set itself a year 2000 goal of Education for All -- EFA, to United Nations technocrats -- the target appears as elusive as ever with developing countries almost routinely failing to meet targets. Education budgets are down, infrastructural works are badly needed and, throughout regions like Latin America and the Caribbean, there are concerns about high levels of functional illiteracy and the ripple effects of unemployment and poverty.
  
• The Caribbean Regional Council for Adult Education
  CARCAE was established in 1978 as an umbrella organization for adult education in the English, French, Dutch and Papiemento speaking countries of the Caribbean
  
• Latin America and the Caribbean Selected Economic and Social Data 1998
  Gross and Net Enrollment Ratios for pre-primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions copmarison between 1980 and 1995. Source: World Devbelopment Indicators
  
• A Caribbean Education Strategy. The World Bank
  Rapid and continuous technological change is accepted as a feature of the twenty-first century: its impact is felt globally. Labor intensive technologies are on the decline; scientific knowledge and technological principles are now considered key to increase productivity and wealth. The concomitant transformations in the global economy, international relations, and social institutions require a constant re-conceptualization and re-formulation of systems to steer and manage this process of change. Reform of education and training systems is therefore pivotal in preparing people to address the new market demands and to capitalize on emerging opportunities. Over the past two decades industrialized countries as well as the developing world have been engaged in a process of education reform.