Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resoources in the Early West Indian Colonies

Bacchus, M. K.

ISBN 10: 0889209820 / ISBN 13: 9780889209824

Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990

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1990. Caribbean, Mesoamerica. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 412p., very good - near fine paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resoources in the Early West Indian Colonies
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889209820
• ISBN 13: 9780889209824
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

This comprehensive study of the development of education in the West Indies between 1492 and 1854 examines the shifts which occurred within the nature of the education programs provided for the masses. Believing existing theories of educational change are too limiting, Bacchus has blended detailed analysis of such important factors as the changing role of the state, the conflicting educational objectives among the “dominant” groups, and their differences with the missionary societies providing popular education to better understand how these changes came about. He attributes greater importance to the role of the masses, who increasingly asserted their views about the type of education they wanted for their children. The book demonstrates how instructional programs developed in the West Indies not as the result of a rational curriculum development process but, rather, through a series of compromises made to accommodate the views of various influential groups. Education and curriculum evolved by way of a show, yet constant, changing dialectical process.
Such an insightful work will arouse the interest of scholars and students of educational development, particularly those studying the West Indies.

About the Author

M. Kazim Bacchus was Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for International Education and Development at the University of Alberta. He helped as Director to establish the Institute for Educational Development at The Aga Khan University in Kartachi, Pakistan. He taught at the Universities of London, Guyana, West Indies, Alberta, and Chicago and was a consultant with CIDA, UNESCO, the Government of Papua New Guinea, and the Commonwealth Secretariat.