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New journal on Caribbean education released

Published:Sunday | August 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Jeffrey Barnett (right), art director, NCB Jamaica Limited, discusses a piece produced by 19-year-old Dushaine Lorraine (centre), first-place winner of the Rotaract Club of Kingston Inner-city Art Competition, and Dwayne Brathwaite who placed third in the competition. Barnett presented a scholarship award to Lorraine on behalf of the NCB Foundation for winning the competition held last Sunday, with his piece titled 'Embracing Freedom' which portrays a nation's independence as being able to have faces of its own people depicted on its currency. - Contributed

There's a new journal on the market that is aimed at highlighting education-related issues in the Caribbean. It's called Educating the Caribbean Child: Reshaping the World and it's editor, Tim Bailey, believes it challenges the vestiges of enslavement and colonialism in Caribbean schools.

"It is committed to the view that the region's growth, development and unity as one people lie in a creative and emancipatory education, one built on the pillar of critical knowledge which instructs teachers and students alike as a group situated within a world with a special relationship to domination and subordination", he writes in the editorial of the inaugural edition of the magazine.


That edition also features editorials from the late Professor Rex Nettleford and Erna Brodber, noted researcher and historian.


For more information, call 336-8567 or visit www.educatingthecaribbeanchild.org.