The teaching methods employed by six tutors from three teachers' colleges in Jamaica were classified as investigative or authoritative after observing each twice. The attitudes towards mathematics of 90 of their second-year students, all prospective primary school teachers, were then measured. It was found that students of low and middle achievement indicated more enjoyment of mathematics under an investigative method, whereas high-achieving students enjoyed mathematics more under authoritative methods.

Values education is a concern of many educators at the present time. This paper proposes that values education can be taught through literature, since the study of literature should not simply be confined to analysis of an. author's technique, but, as Rosenblatt [7] suggests, should also concern itself with ''ultimate questions concerning relevance or value to the reader in his ongoing life."

The Westindian, like St. Peter, cannot hide safely behind his speech. His "accent" will give him away in North America, Britain, West Africa or in any part of the world where the English Language holds sway. Indeed I should be surprised if the same remark does not hold good mutatis mutandis for Frenchand Dutch-speaking Westindians but I am concerned here with the Anglophone confraternity of the Caribbean region.

On 16 May 1841, some .seven years before emancipation in the Danish Virgin Islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John, the first school for slave children was officially opened on the St. Croix plantation of La Grande Princess. It was one of 1 7 such projected schools - 8 in St. Croix, 5 in St. Thomas and 4 in St. John - built from capital funds provided by the crown, with recurrent costs for staffing and maintenance borne by local taxation.

The purpose of this paper is to present a model of how teachers might perform in classrooms and to discuss certain consequences that it has for the training and work of the teacher. We argue that individual differences in teaching competence derive in part from how teachers have adapted their skills, abilities and values to the demands and responsibilities of the teaching settings in which they have worked during their careers.

The production of audio-visual presentations relaled to the environment of the child is often stymied by the problem of procedure: how does the classroom teacher go about turning an idea into a product? This paper outlines the steps followed by the author in creating a teaching package consisting of a taped commentary to accompany a set of slides. The same procedures could be adapted in the creation of a similar presentation for use in any subject area at any level.

Manley [13] advocates that "the 'total' school must be involved in the governance process both internally and externally because this is the only way to prepare people for a political system that is based upon mass governance participation." Further he states [14] that the "politics of participation" demands involvement i.e. "the conscious attempt to make people feel that they have a part to play in the decision-making processes of government." This call has given rise to attempts to democratize secondary and high schools in Jamaica.

In 1970, 60.2% of all ‘A’ level Caribbean candidates who wrote the Cambridge Special Paper in History - “Emancipation And Its Results In The British West Indies, 1833-1860” - passed. The percentages of passes for 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1976 were 65.7, 60.8, 32.0, 33.3 and 39.5 respectively. These figures show a decline when the two three-year periods 1970 to 1972 and 1974 to 1976, are compared. This paper proposes to examine the factors which might have been associated with the decline in performance for the period 1974 to 1976.

The primary aim of the research summarized in this article was to develop instruments to measure the identity of young Jamaicans and then to apply these measures to a sample of students completing their first year of post secondary work. The examination of the relationship between identity and certain biographical, environmental personality and attitudinal variables, which are identified from the literature as relevant to the formation of the young person’s personality, is the second main objective of this research.
 

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In 1983 the US-based Atlantic Center for the Environment and the Foundation for PRIDE (Protection of Reefs and Islands from Degradation and Exploitation), based in the Turks and Caicos Islands, joined forces in a cooperative exchange programme focusing on environmental education. This exchange between the Caribbean region and the Atlantic region of North America (the northern New England states, eastern Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) aimed at strengthening environmental education efforts in both regions.