Caribbean schooling and the social divide – what will it take to change neo-colonial education systems?
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01/12/2014
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When Professor N’Dri Assie-Lumumba asked me to reflect on what ‘ubuntu’ might mean in the context of education in the Caribbean, the first thing that came to mind was an image of pit latrines in impoverished primary schools in poor countries. In this essay, I argue that the continuing problem of pit latrines in these schools symbolizes the failure to solve the problem of poverty, neglect and inadequate provision of education services for people at the bottom rungs of Caribbean and other decolonising societies. I ask what implications the ‘ubuntu’ concept chosen for the 2015 CIES conference would have for reforming education in a direction that combines global reform, ethics and good sense. Educators rarely consider toilets when they are thinking about what is needed to reform the system. But talking about toilets draws attention to the entrenched inequity that persists in education systems across the globe – an inequity that forces many schools and young people to remain at the base of the social pyramid, and that perpetuates a dysfunctional model of education holding back many societies. Starting from the twin images of social pyramids and toilets, we can ask some pointed questions about education reform. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/79602/3/__staffhome.qut.edu.au_staffgrouph%24_hollambc_Desktop_Anne%20Hickling-Hudson%3BCaribbean%20Schooling%20and%20the%20Social%20Divide%20FNL.pdf http://cies2015.org/response-hickling-hudson.html Hickling-Hudson, Anne (2014) Caribbean schooling and the social divide – what will it take to change neo-colonial education systems? In CIES 2015 Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, 8-13 March 2015, Washington, USA. |
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Copyright 2014 [please consult the author] |
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School of Cultural & Professional Learning; Faculty of Education |
Palavras-Chave | #130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education #Caribbean education #inequity and pit latrines #neo-colonialism #reparations #strategies for transformation |
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Conference Paper |