Tavis D Jules
Biographic Data
| ID | 5930932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tavis D Jules |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tavis D |
| FAMILY NAME | Jules |
| SIGNATURE | JULES T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2602-1665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epistemic Educational Futures in an Era of Deglobalization and the Polycrisis
This conceptual paper explores what I term epistemic educational futures, utilizing a reparatory framework. It argues that this is possible because deglobalization and the polycrisis have created new geocentric spaces in which we can rethink the role of education in addressing epistemic injustice. Historically, education has served as a tool of dominant epistemes, but it is now time to redefine it to focus on eradicating coloniality. While most r…
From Afro-pessimism to Afrofuturism
The Global Learning Crisis, Student Activism, and “Educational Revolution Contagion”
The United States’ Repudiation of Multilateral Educational Agreements
Academic Freedom Under Siege
Autocracy has arrived in the United States.It has only been a few short months since our back-to-back editorials in which we raised concerns about the global rise of authoritarianism (Salajan and jules 2024a) and anticipated the potential ominous results of the November 2024 US presidential elections (Salajan and jules 2024b), both of which will have consequential repercussions on education in the United States and abroad.We do not claim to have …
Intersecting (Poly)Crises, Intersecting Futures
Debates and Disruptions in the Global Governance of Education
Higher education in crisis – from dictatorship to neoliberalism
The ascent of ‘neoliberal regionalism’ in an era of multistakeholderism
An examination of socio-cultural region-building through comparative regionalism
Toward the (Post)Qualitative Turn in Comparative and International Education
The Global Resurgence of Authoritarianism and Its Existential Threats to Education
Navigating an Unbridled World
US Education in the Age of Trumpism, Project 2025, American Isolationism, and the Global Polycrisis
What Caricom can learn from other regionalism(s) in an era of deglobalisation
Applying a comparative regionalism approach to study regionalism(s) in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Latin America (LA), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), this paper outlines what lessons Latin America and ASEAN regionalism(s) hold for CARICOM based on its current updated model of that concept. With the rise of deglobalisation and the retreat towards regionalism, analysing how different regionalism models approach globa…
Introduction
An African Union-Caribbean Community alliance in the global reparations movement
Due to shared colonialist histories, current economic and political struggles, and challenges in charting inclusive futures, it is, in the opinion of the authors, essential for the people of the Caribbean and Africa to unite in their advocacy for reparations and justice. This article articulates what such an alliance might look like through a comprehensive analysis of documents between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union (AU) …
Regionalization and policy mobilities in comparative perspective
We employ a policy assemblage, mobilities, and mutations framework to analyze the geographies that constitute and reflect educational policy circulation at the regional or supranational level in trans-regional regimes and/or quasi-federal polities such as the European Union (EU) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Recognizing that policies are mobile in a fragmentary fashion as they are re/dis/assembled in specific ways, places, and purposes, …
Renewing Protest and Earth Day at School
(Re)thinking material and epistemic futures
In this conceptual paper, we envision new development possibilities for the Anglophone Caribbean through reparations for the legacies of chattel slavery, indigenous dispossession, extractive capitalism, and their significance to the making of capitalist modernity. We lay out the development paradigm’s historical geometries, including the violence of colonialism, extractive and racial capitalism, and the resultant material and epistemic effects. U…
Caribbean exceptionalism and the rise of Sino-Caricom relations in the post-bureaucratic era
This article explores the evolving relationship between China and CARICOM countries. It discusses how China has been using regional soft power to influence educational mobility. It speaks to the tensions inherent in debt diplomacy and educational mobility as economic and political regional integration (Caribbean exceptionalism) is engendered. As China pursues bilateral relations under South-South Cooperation rather than multilateral relations thr…
Educational framing and discursive educational opportunity structures in comparative and international education
This conceptual paper draws on theoretical insights from the concept of discursive opportunity structure. The paper uses a summative content analysis (a comparison of historical records) to demonstrate how discursive opportunity structures shape the multi-level nature of educational governance, which operates at different scales in different regions. Before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) struck, the post-2008 global recession had begun to give way to…
Black Lives Matter in Our Syllabi
Constructing global citizenship education at the regional level
This conceptual paper examines the development of global citizenship education (GCE) by looking at economic regionalism’s political economy. First, this paper situates the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) citizenship education initiatives within the larger scope of global citizenship. Using a historical policy analysis, this article then explores the nexus between economic integration and the construction of citizenship by analysing CARICOM’s Huma…
Regimes Theory’ as an Approach to Understanding Educational Cooperation in Caricom and Commonwealth Countries
This article discusses the implication of soft diplomacy in education, in the form of educational cooperation, for the governance of regimes. In drawing upon regime theory, it suggests that the Commonwealth should be viewed as a regime, and its survival is partly dependent upon how it uses educational cooperation to coordinate its functional areas, such as education. Moreover, educational cooperation at the transnational level is different from t…
Mature regionalism’ and the genesis of ‘functional projects’
This article advances that the movement towards ‘deeper’ Caribbean integration has generated a shift from ‘immature’ regionalism to a ‘mature’ form of regionalism. Thus, mature regionalism, a new governance mechanism, in regulating the institutional and legal framework of Caribbean Single Market and Economy is drastically altering national education governance within the Caribbean Community. In focusing on the functional aspects integration, this…
(Re)thinking material and epistemic futures
In this conceptual paper, we envision new development possibilities for the Anglophone Caribbean through reparations for the legacies of chattel slavery, indigenous dispossession, extractive capitalism, and their significance to the making of capitalist modernity. We lay out the development paradigm’s historical geometries, including the violence of colonialism, extractive and racial capitalism, and the resultant material and epistemic effects. U…
The regional politics of scale
This article seeks to revisit Arthur Lewis’s theory of labour market dualism, while focusing on human resource development in the form of labour productivity, to explain its usefulness in the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) contemporary policy discourses around non-economic integration in an era that is now classified as the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. The focus is on how key assumptions around labour productivity, and the lessons that ca…
Going Trilingual
Based on a Historical Policy Analysis, this article provides an evaluation of Grenada’s educational policy discourse and shows that, 30 years later, Grenada speaks three different policy languages (national, regional and international)—or what is termed policy trilingualism—to appease national development trends, regional aspirations and international mandates. This article sketches out how Grenada has sought to develop its human resource capacit…
An African Union-Caribbean Community alliance in the global reparations movement
Due to shared colonialist histories, current economic and political struggles, and challenges in charting inclusive futures, it is, in the opinion of the authors, essential for the people of the Caribbean and Africa to unite in their advocacy for reparations and justice. This article articulates what such an alliance might look like through a comprehensive analysis of documents between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union (AU) …
Constructing global citizenship education at the regional level
This conceptual paper examines the development of global citizenship education (GCE) by looking at economic regionalism’s political economy. First, this paper situates the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) citizenship education initiatives within the larger scope of global citizenship. Using a historical policy analysis, this article then explores the nexus between economic integration and the construction of citizenship by analysing CARICOM’s Huma…
Regimes Theory’ as an Approach to Understanding Educational Cooperation in Caricom and Commonwealth Countries
This article discusses the implication of soft diplomacy in education, in the form of educational cooperation, for the governance of regimes. In drawing upon regime theory, it suggests that the Commonwealth should be viewed as a regime, and its survival is partly dependent upon how it uses educational cooperation to coordinate its functional areas, such as education. Moreover, educational cooperation at the transnational level is different from t…
The political economy of ‘open regionalism’ and education in small (and micro) states
In this era of amplified regionalisation, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) conceptualisation of ‘open regionalism’ is pertinent to examine the role of regional governance mechanisms in constructing what I call the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. With the aid of a latent content analysis of policy documents that focuses on the current wave of regionalism within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, I…
Governing universities globally
Ideological pluralism and revisionism in small (and micro) states
This paper focuses on the socialist underpinnings of education policies in three small (and micro) states: Guyana, Jamaica and Grenada. It explores the role of education underneath ideological pluralism in constructing socialist citizens through cooperative socialism in Guyana, democratic socialism in Jamaica and revolutionary socialism in Grenada. The successive disintegration of ideological pluralism in these three countries paved the way for p…
Going Trilingual
Based on a Historical Policy Analysis, this article provides an evaluation of Grenada’s educational policy discourse and shows that, 30 years later, Grenada speaks three different policy languages (national, regional and international)—or what is termed policy trilingualism—to appease national development trends, regional aspirations and international mandates. This article sketches out how Grenada has sought to develop its human resource capacit…
The political economy of ‘open regionalism’ and education in small (and micro) states
In this era of amplified regionalisation, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) conceptualisation of ‘open regionalism’ is pertinent to examine the role of regional governance mechanisms in constructing what I call the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. With the aid of a latent content analysis of policy documents that focuses on the current wave of regionalism within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, I…
The regional politics of scale
This article seeks to revisit Arthur Lewis’s theory of labour market dualism, while focusing on human resource development in the form of labour productivity, to explain its usefulness in the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) contemporary policy discourses around non-economic integration in an era that is now classified as the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. The focus is on how key assumptions around labour productivity, and the lessons that ca…
Mature regionalism’ and the genesis of ‘functional projects’
This article advances that the movement towards ‘deeper’ Caribbean integration has generated a shift from ‘immature’ regionalism to a ‘mature’ form of regionalism. Thus, mature regionalism, a new governance mechanism, in regulating the institutional and legal framework of Caribbean Single Market and Economy is drastically altering national education governance within the Caribbean Community. In focusing on the functional aspects integration, this…
Regimes Theory’ as an Approach to Understanding Educational Cooperation in Caricom and Commonwealth Countries
This article discusses the implication of soft diplomacy in education, in the form of educational cooperation, for the governance of regimes. In drawing upon regime theory, it suggests that the Commonwealth should be viewed as a regime, and its survival is partly dependent upon how it uses educational cooperation to coordinate its functional areas, such as education. Moreover, educational cooperation at the transnational level is different from t…
Black Lives Matter in Our Syllabi
Constructing global citizenship education at the regional level
This conceptual paper examines the development of global citizenship education (GCE) by looking at economic regionalism’s political economy. First, this paper situates the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) citizenship education initiatives within the larger scope of global citizenship. Using a historical policy analysis, this article then explores the nexus between economic integration and the construction of citizenship by analysing CARICOM’s Huma…
Educational framing and discursive educational opportunity structures in comparative and international education
This conceptual paper draws on theoretical insights from the concept of discursive opportunity structure. The paper uses a summative content analysis (a comparison of historical records) to demonstrate how discursive opportunity structures shape the multi-level nature of educational governance, which operates at different scales in different regions. Before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) struck, the post-2008 global recession had begun to give way to…
Regionalization and policy mobilities in comparative perspective
We employ a policy assemblage, mobilities, and mutations framework to analyze the geographies that constitute and reflect educational policy circulation at the regional or supranational level in trans-regional regimes and/or quasi-federal polities such as the European Union (EU) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Recognizing that policies are mobile in a fragmentary fashion as they are re/dis/assembled in specific ways, places, and purposes, …
Renewing Protest and Earth Day at School
(Re)thinking material and epistemic futures
In this conceptual paper, we envision new development possibilities for the Anglophone Caribbean through reparations for the legacies of chattel slavery, indigenous dispossession, extractive capitalism, and their significance to the making of capitalist modernity. We lay out the development paradigm’s historical geometries, including the violence of colonialism, extractive and racial capitalism, and the resultant material and epistemic effects. U…
Caribbean exceptionalism and the rise of Sino-Caricom relations in the post-bureaucratic era
This article explores the evolving relationship between China and CARICOM countries. It discusses how China has been using regional soft power to influence educational mobility. It speaks to the tensions inherent in debt diplomacy and educational mobility as economic and political regional integration (Caribbean exceptionalism) is engendered. As China pursues bilateral relations under South-South Cooperation rather than multilateral relations thr…
Toward the (Post)Qualitative Turn in Comparative and International Education
The Global Resurgence of Authoritarianism and Its Existential Threats to Education
Navigating an Unbridled World
US Education in the Age of Trumpism, Project 2025, American Isolationism, and the Global Polycrisis
What Caricom can learn from other regionalism(s) in an era of deglobalisation
Applying a comparative regionalism approach to study regionalism(s) in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Latin America (LA), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), this paper outlines what lessons Latin America and ASEAN regionalism(s) hold for CARICOM based on its current updated model of that concept. With the rise of deglobalisation and the retreat towards regionalism, analysing how different regionalism models approach globa…
Introduction
An African Union-Caribbean Community alliance in the global reparations movement
Due to shared colonialist histories, current economic and political struggles, and challenges in charting inclusive futures, it is, in the opinion of the authors, essential for the people of the Caribbean and Africa to unite in their advocacy for reparations and justice. This article articulates what such an alliance might look like through a comprehensive analysis of documents between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the African Union (AU) …
The United States’ Repudiation of Multilateral Educational Agreements
Academic Freedom Under Siege
Autocracy has arrived in the United States.It has only been a few short months since our back-to-back editorials in which we raised concerns about the global rise of authoritarianism (Salajan and jules 2024a) and anticipated the potential ominous results of the November 2024 US presidential elections (Salajan and jules 2024b), both of which will have consequential repercussions on education in the United States and abroad.We do not claim to have …
Intersecting (Poly)Crises, Intersecting Futures
Debates and Disruptions in the Global Governance of Education
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