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
{"title":"Suspicion: Vaccine Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados","authors":"F. Ledgister","doi":"10.1080/00086495.2022.2037260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2022.2037260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35039,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44304185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037241
I. Bennett
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2037242
Victoria Carpenter
HURRICANE GILBERT WAS A CATEGORY 5 STORM which struck Jamaica on 12 September 1988 before continuing on to the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico where it made landfall two days later. Gilbert was called the storm of the century as it set records for size, amount of rainfall, atmospheric pressure, track, and total energy.1 Forty-five people were killed in Jamaica and the island suffered widespread infrastructural damage (75 percent of housing stock was damaged),2 and significant loss of crops and livestock.3 It took Jamaica over six months to move everyone out of shelters and into new houses.4 By December 1988, tourist resorts were once again open to the public5 as the island saw the end of the emergency response period, and the beginning of a lengthy process of economic and social recovery. From September 1988 onwards, a number of texts were produced to narrate the story of Gilbert’s landing and the destruction the storm caused on the island. There were two types of texts: those representing the state’s view of the hurricane and its aftermath (statements by officials and government reports), and those representing the public’s view of Gilbert (witnesses’ testimonials, artistic works reflecting public sentiment, and so on). We will examine how Hurricane Gilbert was described in the two types of texts. We will begin with the statements by government officials and newspaper coverage of the effects the hurricane had on the island immediately after the landfall, and within the first three months of the aftermath. The texts used for this purpose come from a compilation of newspaper reports and statements by government officials.6 We will then proceed to the analysis of two songs written shortly after the hurricane: “Wild Gilbert” by Lloyd Lovindeer7 and “Gilbert Attack Us” by Banana Man.8 We aim to determine whether the way these songs depict Gilbert is similar to that presented in the state texts or whether there are significant
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