The Modern Caribbean Economy, Volume I

CHAPTER 4

Reforming Education in the Caribbean

From Policy to Transformative Leadership

Denise Pearson

Summary

Chapter 4 claims that Caribbean systems of education experience some of the same multi-dimensional challenges as many of its global neighbors. According to the author, educational leaders and policy makers in the Caribbean should consider the thinking of certain scholars who advocate for critical theory approaches to leadership, which can effectively address these challenges.

Education, the beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery (Horace Mann 1848).

Introduction

The effectiveness of government-sponsored education in the Caribbean is the subject ...