| Date | Time | Type | Details | Venue |
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| Thursday February 7 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | BOOK LAUNCH |
SDG 4 Quality Education: Inclusivity, Equity and Lifelong Learning For AllOverview: The book explores the multifaceted and complex nature of the concepts of inclusivity and quality education. Drawing examples from two different country contexts (Latvia and Jamaica), the book explores how and why inclusive and quality education is critical to sustainable development. It considers the indicators of inclusive and quality education, how the concept of education for sustainable development is evolving, and the ways in which these indicators are being pursued. The book pays specific attention to the roles of teachers, teacher educators, and the curriculum in the attainment of inclusive and quality education and 21st century skills for a sustainable society. Authors: Therese Ferguson, Dzintra Iliško, Carmel Roofe and Susan Hill Guest Speaker: Ms. Latoya Swaby-Anderson National Programme Officer, Education, UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean
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Neville Hall Lecture Theatre |
| Thursday February 7 | 10:00AM - 3:00PM | COURTYARD EXHIBIT |
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT COURTYARD EXHIBITOverview: The SOE will mount two main displays The first will profile the School of Education undergraduate and graduate programmes and feature a display publications (books and journals) produced and written by SOE and SOE Faculty with a reading/activity corner with coffee. Special emphasis on targeted early childhood institutions for one hour on Thursday/Friday for storytelling/painting/music interaction. The second display will highlight the Mixed Methods International Research Association Caribbean Chapter (MMIRA-CC) which is affiliated with the SOE. The display will share information on the Association in order to strengthen its visibility, encourage membership and offer invitations for mixed methods research paper publications. |
Faculty of Humanities and Education Courtyard |
| Thursday February 7 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM | PANEL DISCUSSION |
Transitioning out of Enhanced Security Measures: Sustaining Security GainsINSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SECURITY Overview: Persons attending this panel discussion will hear from experts (researchers and practitioners) about key strategies for sustaining violence reduction in Jamaica (and which may be applicable elsewhere in the Caribbean). Attendees will hear about current innovations, evidence-based practices in violence reduction and crime control policy. Panellists Professor Anthony Harriott, Director, Institute of Criminal Justice and security, UWI; Mr. Damian Hutchinson, Executive Director, Peace Management Initiative; Mr. Mark Shields, Former Deputy Commissioner of Police – Jamaica Constabulary Force. |
Council Room, UWI Regional Headquarters |
| Thursday February 7 | 5:15PM-6:15PM | FORUM |
Education for Sustainable Development: For Whom and For What?Overview: The Education for Sustainable Development Working Group (ESD-WG) of the School of Education will be hosting a Forum on theoretical and empirical research undertaken by its members on different aspects of ESD and sustainable development such as: reorienting teacher education to address sustainability; education for democratic citizenship; and proposition MRM as a construction of sustainable development. Moderator: Dr. Aldrin Sweeney, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, UWI; Presenters: Dr. Carol Gentles, Lecturer, School of Education; Mrs. Vileitha Davis-Morrison, Lecturer, School of Education; Dr. Canute Thompson, Lecturer, School of Education |
Lecture Theatre N1, Faculty of Humanities and Education |
| Thursday February 7 | 5:30PM - 7:30PM | PANEL DISCUSSION |
Strengthening Governance in Public Sector Companies: Beyond Petrojam"Overview: Scandals in public sector companies test faith in public governance and can reverberate in the economy. MonaLaw experts and researchers in economic law, financial crimes and corporate governance, and others, will discuss the way forward to strengthen good governance and acccountability in public sector companies. Panellists: Suzanne Ffolkes Goldson, Senior Lecturer, MonaLaw; Dr Christopher Malcolm, Senior Lecturer, MonaLaw; Dr David McBean, Executive Director, Mona School of Business and Management Moderator: Dr Shazeeda Ali, Senior Lectrer, Dean (Actg.), MonaLaw |
Law Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of Law |
| Thursday February 7 | 6:00PM JA TIME 7:00PM EC TIME | ONLINE YOUTH FORUM |
2019 Climate Change Youth Forum Climate Change Impacts to the Caribbean and the Attainment of SDGs: The Importance of Involving Youth Calling all Youth 18-35Chair: Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, UWI Vice Chancellor Moderator: Dr. David A. Smith Director , Center for Environmental Management; Discussants: Prof. Michael Taylor, Prof. John Agard, Una May Gordon, Laleta Davis Mattis, June Barbour, Thalia Balkaran; Contributors: Tehilla Maloney, Asha Gaye Cowell Forum Link: https://ca.bbcollab.com/guest/4da70e05ba6b4c1ab8690262d452ca54 |
Online |
| Thursday February 7 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM | BOOK LAUNCH |
Developing Sustainable Balance of Payment in Small Countries: Lessons from Macroeconomic Deadlock in JamaicaOverview: The book analyses Jamaica’s ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. The book further delves into Jamaica’s continued indebtedness, continued successive arrangements with the International Monetary Fund, its depreciating currency continues to drive up debt servicing requirements, and provides policy recommendations to bolster the Jamaican economy into solvency and suggests strategies for supporting local economic objectives within global geopolitical constraints Author: Kelli-ann Dixon Hamilton |
Regional Headquarters UWI, Mona |
| Date | Time | Type | Details | Venue |
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| Friday February 8 | 10:00AM - 3:00PM | PARTICIPATORY EXPERIENCE |
GENIUS TIMEOverview: Each Department will be represented by one (1) genius (15-20 minutes per hour) who will give a dramatization of a science concept – e.g. equation solving and proofs, Newtonian forces, etc. The audience will be engaged to participate. AUDIENCE: High School students & their teachers |
The Spine, Faculty of Science and Technology |
| Friday February 8 | 10:00AM - 11:00AM | LECTURE |
Water-supply/Metissage/Global-warming and Fanon: South/South dialogical engagement between Cuba and JamaicaOverview: Twenty six years on, Pswarayi laments that from a full complement of one hundred and twenty states, only twelve made the attendance of the Venezuelan summit. At the heart of the attrition in attendance and waning interest is the notion of colonialism being outdated and a relic of a bygone era. This presentation argues, in the vogue of Fanonian thinkers like Sylvia Wynter that the current dereliction of the non-aligned movement is rooted – like the failure of the black power movement of the 1960’s – in the confusion and displacement of transcendental phenomenology with phenomenological psychology and the resulting – constricting - hegemonic dialectic of developed versus developing world. This water-as-metissage tropic analysis will be carried out in the context of the postcolonial experiences of Jamaica and Cuba Presenter: Dr Horace Williams, Lecturer, Jamaica Theological Seminary |
The Undercroft, Senate Building |
| Friday February 8 | 10:00AM - 2:00PM | PARTICIPATORY EXPERIENCE |
Alternative energy using the bicycleOverview: Participants will ride a bicycle and attempt to light up a series of light bulbs based on speed AUDIENCE: High school students, FST students |
The Spine, Faculty of Science and Technology |
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