Reflecting on the Business of Educating in St. Vincent and the Grenadines

CONTENTS
 
 
Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface



Part I. General Issues

Our Education System: Broad Perspectives

Financing Education in SVG

Emancipation, Language and Cultural Identity

How Are We Doing with Ideas?

Educational Knowledge and Education Problems

Knowledge and Action in SVG

Specialization and Education

Mistaken Ideas about Education

The Disappearance of Childhood in SVG

The Role of Parents in Education

The Nature of Secondary Education

The Gathering of Teachers

The Right to Attend School

The Common Entrance and the Structure of Schooling
Part II. Gender and Educating

The Male Teacher in the Classroom

Maleness and the Grammar School

Gender and Male Underachievement

Gender and Male Underachievement

Gender and Male Underachievement


Part III. Teaching and Learning

Advice to an Intending Teacher

Professional Status of Teachers

Teaching: the Same Yesterday, Today and ....?

The Nature of Subject Matter

The Content of a Basic Education

Educational Materials

Proposals for the Improvement of Curriculum

Choosing the Subjects

Studying at "A" Level

Motivation and Learning

Memory and Learning I

Memory and Learning II

Memory and Learning III

Studying Effectively

Guidelines for Classroom Conduct

Increasing the Length of Timetable Periods

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