Education for development: The case for a skills-based approach

Date

2008

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Publisher

School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine

Abstract

This article articulates possibilities for education to promote development. Development, conceptualized as capability expansion, can be facilitated once we use education to develop and expand the skills, academic and non-academic, not only within the expanded secondary education system but also on a wider scale, utilizing other training institutions nationwide

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Keywords

Education and development, Skill development, Trinidad and Tobago

Citation

Foote, R. (2008). Education for development: The case for a skills-based approach. In L. Quamina-Aiyejina (Ed.), Reconceptualising the agenda for education in the Caribbean: Proceedings of the 2007 Biennial Cross-Campus Conference in Education, April 23-26, 2007, School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago (pp. 441-446). St. Augustine, Trinidad: School of Education, UWI.