This double issue of the Caribbean Journal of Education offers a special section with papers from the Third International Conference on TVET in the Caribbean, held in May 2017. As Professor Halden Morris writes in his introduction to Section Two, the papers speak “to the importance of the development of TVET at the tertiary level and the preparation of the workforce to effectively engage the economic challenges faced by countries in the Caribbean and other developing regions as a whole.”
The papers in Section One are offered as a general issue with no specified theme. Yet, interestingly, they share commonalities in a shared concern for constructing deeper understandings of the influence of context and culture on student, teacher, and principal learning. The authors also proffer, in various ways, that improvements in teaching and learning at all levels of education across the Caribbean require changes in the way curricula are conceived and enacted. They highlight the importance of including the Voices of stakeholders — students, teachers, school principals, and university faculty in research seeking to produce culturally relevant and meaningful change.