Endless Education

Main currents in the education system of modern Trinidad and Tobago, 1939-1986

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ID19918876
AuthorsCarl C Campbell (corresponding author)
Year1997
Pages262
Publication date1997-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEndless education (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherThe University of the West Indies Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.37234/lhwfpojv
OpenAlexW4388550367
ISBN9789766400323
Open LibraryOL765778M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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)

Decolonization · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · West indies · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Education · Education and state · History · Political aspects · Politics and education · Trinidad and tobago

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