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Beverley Bryan

Editorial

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SKU: jedic-10-2-1

This issue, like our last, offers a range of papers in areas relevant to educational concerns in the Caribbean. The focus on education is self-evident, but in this introduction I want to underscore the other mandate of this publication evident in the title, that we interrogate educational issues to propel development in our region.

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Rethinking Pathways to Excellence in Teacher Education

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SKU: cje-19-2-9

The paper uses a historical perspective to discuss issues that have influenced and continue to shape teacher education in Jamaica. In addition, practical and philosophical characteristics of the current programme are highlighted. In examining the existing system and charting new pathways, the importance of the teacher in a formative context is highlighted as a core component in reconceptualizing the programme of the School of Education.

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Language Variation in Dominica: Perceptions, Practice, and Policies

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SKU: cje-28-1-2

This paper is an investigation of the language varieties understood and used by teachers, and recognition of the implications of these understandings for language education. It acknowledges the role played by teachers and the education system in language maintenance and language change in a period of mass education, which is now moving toward universal secondary education (USE).

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The Writing Performance in English of African Heritage Students in Two Urban Environments: Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica

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SKU: JEDIC-10-1-2

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the writing performance in English of African heritage students in Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica. The study explores the effects of language use on the written production of English among African heritage students in two geographical locations, Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica. Particular attention is drawn to the effects of Jamaican Creole usage in Jamaica and Creole/ Black British Talk in England, on the achievement levels of African heritage students.

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Defining Literacy for Jamaica Issues in Theory and Practice

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Introduction The story so far

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This issue of our journal is the first, for some time, to focus on language teaching and learning. Its orientation is toward the teaching of English even though we also look at other foreign languages. By speaking of "other foreign languages'' we are taking a stance about the approach to English teaching in the Jamaican classroom, as in other parts of the region. And this stance is that, at the very least, English can not be regarded as the native language of many of the students.

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Greetings—Beverley Bryan

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SKU: JEDIC-11-1-3

I would like to specially welcome this issue of JEDIC and the special papers that came out of our inaugural conference, 'Qualitative Inquiry in the Caribbean: Past, Present and Future'. It was a special conference because for the first time so many colleagues (150 or more) came together as a community of qualitative researchers from other departments on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, other universities in Jamaica, our sister campuses and other international universities.

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SKU: JEDIC-13-12-0

This double issue of the Journal of Education and Development in The Caribbean (JEDIC) honours Jossett Lewis‐Smikle, lecturer in Literacy Studies in the School of Education, University of the West Indies, Mona, who passed away in March 2013. Many in our university community and beyond will know of her unstinting commitment to literacy achievement in Jamaica through her teaching, research, curriculum development and community work.

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SKU: JEDIC-14-1-0

In a journal such as this that includes ‘development’ in its title, it is important that from time to time a6ention is paid to what that word ‘development’ actually means outside of common educational practices. It is a concept that does need some focus as the Caribbean moves forward to introduce a more complex approach to our national and regional preoccupations. One relevant theme which we have not addressed before in approaching the development stance of this journal is that of the Caribbean diaspora.

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The Writing Performance in English of African Heritage Students in Two Urban Environments: Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica

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SKU: JEDIC-15-1-1

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the writing performance in English of African heritage students in Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica. The study explores the effects of language use on the written production of English among African heritage students in two geographical locations, Birmingham, England and Kingston, Jamaica. Particular attention is drawn to the effects of Jamaican Creole usage in Jamaica and Creole/Black British Talk in England, on the achievement levels of African heritage students.

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