Education Perspective (Express newspaper columns)

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    Challenges of Inclusive Schooling
    (Daily Express, 2004-05) Kallon, Michael
    The author examines the topic of inclusive schooling against the background of personal experiences as a graduate student in a foreign university and as a teacher educator in the Caribbean. The article suggests that the starting point for developing an inclusive curriculum is for educators to acknowledge that racism, ethnicity, classism, and sexism are an integral part of Caribbean society. It also notes that the key to building a truly inclusive school is a transformation of the conventional curriculum, and for the adoption of new ways of thinking about schooling and education
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    Dropout or Pushed Out?
    (Daily Express, 2004-03) Kallon, Michael
    This article notes that school dropout is one of the most crucial issues facing education systems in the Caribbean, and identifies some of the reasons advanced for this phenomenon. It is recommended that stakeholders in the education system in Trinidad and Tobago acquaint themselves with the problems faced by students in order to provide recommendations for structural changes to deal with the dropout problem
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    Transforming Our Classrooms
    (Daily Express, 2003-04) Kallon, Michael
    This article discusses the approaches that have been adopted by teachers in classrooms in Trinidad and Tobago, which reflect a transmission or, at best, a transaction ideology. Although the transaction model is seen as a step in the right direction, it is suggested that this model does not provide an orientation towards "empowerment" and "informed responsible action." Instead, the transformation method, which asserts that students should learn to see relationships between themselves and their social environment and between themselves and all aspects of the curriculum, is recommended as an alternative pedagogical strategy for schools in Trinidad and Tobago
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    What Good Teachers Do
    (Daily Express, 2003) Kallon, Michael
    This article discusses constructivism as a teaching method that is required of teachers in Trinidad and Tobago in order to respond to several educational innovations. These innovations are seen as requiring a paradigm shift from traditional methods to new approaches to curriculum delivery, such as constructivism