Endless Education: Main Currents in the Education System of Modern Trinidad and Tobago 1939-1986

Campbell, Carl C.

ISBN 10: 9766400326 / ISBN 13: 9789766400323

Published by University Press of the West Indies, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endless Education: Main Currents in the Education System of Modern Trinidad and Tobago 1939-1986
• Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9766400326
• ISBN 13: 9789766400323
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Endless Education is the first comprehensive study of education in Trinidad and Tobago during the long thirty-year regime of the People's National Movement (PNM), from 1956 to 1986.

Carl Campbell focuses on the efforts by Williams and the PNM to use education as an instrument of postcolonial nation building, and the consequent tensions and conflicts between him and the churches, between 'creoles' and Indians, and between Tobago and Trinidad. His study concludes that the goal of national integration through education eluded the planners, and that diversity, not unity, characterized the education system. Significantly, Campbell finds that as in many other facets of national life, only partial and incomplete decolonization was attained in education.

This study is useful as a source book in schools, colleges and at the University of the West Indies. Readers who reside outside of the Caribbean and who want to know more about the social history of one of the most important English-speaking Caribbean islands should find this book of more than passing interest.

This is the companion volume to Campbell's The Young Colonials: A Social History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago 1834-1939 (The University of the West Indies Press, 1996).

About the Author

Carl C. Campbell is Professor of History on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies. He was a foundation member of this university's History Department in Trinidad and has taught on the Jamaica campus for twenty-two years. He has published several articles on the social history of nineteenth and twentieth century Jamaica and Trinidad, and is author of Colony and Nation: A Short History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago (1992), Cedulants and Capitulants: The Politics of the Coloured Opposition in the Slave Society of Trinidad (1992) and The Young Colonials: A Social History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago 1834-1939 (1996).

He is currently editor of the Jamaica Historical Review and is past president of the Jamaican Historical Society and the Association of Caribbean Historians.