Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037243
Sharon Bramwell-Lalor, Miguel Ison
GROWING RECOGNITION ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF human lifestyles and population growth to the quality of the environment has led to renewed focus on human-related environmental issues. Concerns such as water management and security, waste management, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and climate variability are applicable to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, and require our immediate response. Education is recognised as a critical tool for achieving environmental knowledge and awareness, values and attitudes, skills and behaviours, and promoting effective action1 to sustain present and future generations. Environmental education therefore has been a priority in the education of the population in general.2 UNESCO has called on education systems to introduce pedagogies that empower learners3 in environment-related matters. Teacher preparation programmes, such as that offered by the School of Education, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica, have for many years been equipping teachers for infusing environmental and sustainable development issues in their classrooms. In this article we will describe the orientation of environmental education towards sustainable development, then we will explore how the Jamaican education sector has responded to this orientation. We will lastly investigate how UWI teacher educators have been using an environmental education course to encourage responsible environmental action and further the sustainable development focus. Drawing on examples from the course, we will examine how environmental action was addressed and how pre-service and in-service teachers responded to the call for environmental action.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037260
F. Ledgister
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037246
M. Dorsainvil
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037247
R. Bernal
BARRY RECKORD, A YOUNG JAMAICAN GRADUATE OF Cambridge University, emerged in the 1960s as Britain’s leading, indeed, first successful black playwright. He was a man with a great love of humanity, acutely aware of its material suffering and spiritual depravity having witnessed the extremes of privilege and poverty growing up in Jamaica in the 1940s. His compassion was such that he considered studying for the priesthood. But spiritual caring had to be coupled with purposive action to address the material circumstances of poverty which engulfed so many, particularly in the developing world of which he was a product. An education at one of the world’s leading universities was not just a privilege but an enabling capacity to respond to the émigré’s guilt of not being present to engage first-hand in the struggle of decolonisation and nationbuilding. This gnawed at his conscience as he looked out over Primrose Hill, London from his perch in his second-storey flat. The condition of mankind, especially in his native Caribbean, spurred his restless intellect and increasingly demanded time from playwriting. Starting in the mid-1950s and continuing into the 1960s, his plays were staged at the Royal Court and the Arts Theatre in London’s West End, and on Granada and BBC television. The concern for poverty was evident in one of his early successes, Skyvers,1 which explored the listlessness of impoverished British school-age teenagers, undoubtedly reflecting his experience as a high school teacher in England. The hallmark of this intellect was his brutal honesty, emblematic of which was asking the uncomfortable question which sought not the what but the why and more so the why not. He was naturally curious about the many new FLASHBACK
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