Education for All: Caribbean Perspectives and ImperativesEducation for All: Caribbean Perspectives and Imperatives examines basic education programs and policies throughout the Caribbean in the context of worldwide educational priorities. Global statements on basic education presented at the 1990 World Conference on Education for All are interpreted in terms of Caribbean economic and social realities and resources. Effective primary and secondary education is seen as the cornerstone of the Caribbean's ability to advance and compete in the global community. Education for All, which includes case studies in Haiti, Barbados and Jamaica, looks at promising and innovative educational programs throughout the region. This book draws on papers, documents and exhibits presented at the World Conference and the Caribbean Consultation, one of several regional meetings that preceded the World Conference. The purpose of the meetings, sponsored chiefly by the United Nations and the World Bank, was to bring together world leaders, government delegations, international organizations and eminent educators to forge a global commitment to provide sound basic education for all children and adults around the world. |
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achievement adult literacy adult population agencies all-age areas Aruba assistance Bahamas Barbados basic education Belize Carib Caribbean Consultation Caribbean countries Caribbean education classes colonial Commonwealth Caribbean cost curriculum debt Dominica early childhood education economic educa education in Barbados education programmes educational system effectiveness expanded expenditures factors Framework for Action functional literacy Grade Grenada groups Guyana Haiti illiteracy illiterate impact improve in-service instruction Jamaica JAMAL Kitts/Nevis language literacy levels Literacy Programme Lucia materials ment Ministry of Education mobility Montserrat Netherlands Antilles non-governmental organizations operation opportunities organizations Papiamentu parents participation percent performance pre-school primary education primary level primary school system problems pupils rates reading region rural secondary education secondary schools sector SERVOL skills social Source standards Suriname Table teacher training teacher/pupil ratio teaching tertiary tion tional Trinidad and Tobago UNESCO World Conference