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Anthony D. Griffith

Why Caribbean Teachers Do Not Transfer To Their Classrooms The Teaching Skills They Learn During Training? Or Do They?

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Both anecdotal evidence and recent research have highlighted the concern that Caribbean teachers are generally not transferring to their classrooms the teaching skills they are taught during their training. In fact, the evidence suggests that, in terms of their instructional behaviours and choice of teaching techniques, there appears to be very little difference between trained and untrained teachers.

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Revisiting the Practical Teaching Component of the Teacher Education Programmes in the Eastern Caribbean

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SKU: JEDIC-8-12-4

The evidence seems to suggest that (i) little attention has been paid to re-structuring the practical-teaching component in the Eastern Caribbean programmes over the past forty years; (ii) the duration of the exercise is apparently being reduced rather than being increased in line with current trends; and (iii) neither the notion of the co-operating teacher nor of a more developmental role for the University of the West Indies seems to be formally integrated into the practical teaching exercise.

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Geography in Caribbean Schools: a need to rethink its purpose and direction

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SKU: JEDIC-0201-2

Under the colonial regimes, there seems to have been an obviously political and developmental role (a social purpose) for geography, in addition to its epistemological and academic role and its role as a medium for education. But post-colonial Caribbean governments and educators do not seem to perceive of such a role for school geography or to have used it to enhance development and a sense of Caribbean consciousness. 

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