Education Perspective (Express newspaper columns)

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    Driving to School
    (Daily Express, 2002-12) Lochan, Samuel
    This article nostalgically compares the way children are transported to and from school in maxi taxis with the "good old days" of train and bus transport in the 1960s and early 1970s. The maxi taxi system is seen as a cause for concern, especially with the names they choose to suggest some degree of notoriety, and their dancehall and gangsta rhythms. The article suggests that clearer rules and penalties should be set for those who transport school children
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    Education for Citizenship
    (Daily Express, 2002-10) Lochan, Samuel
    This article laments that after 40 years of independence, Trinidad and Tobago has produced networks of failure through a combination of social and economic policies and the education system. It argues that the development of a civic capability is the first requirement for the development of a country and, therefore, should be the primary goal of education
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    Misunderstanding Teacher Education
    (Daily Express, 2005-12) Lochan, Samuel
    This article argues that the education of a teacher has to be conceptualized as one articulated process beginning in the schools and universities, and then continuing with institutions of initial teacher education. In order to ensure that the policies and programmes adopted at each level are synchronized, it is suggested that all the agencies involved in teacher education in Trinidad and Tobago should share some common understandings about what it means to prepare a teacher to work in the school system in Trinidad and Tobago, and the stages involved in such preparation
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    Schools as Partners in Teacher Education
    (Daily Express, 2006-04) Lochan, Samuel
    This article discusses the role of schools in the preparation of teachers
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    Technology Education for All
    (Daily Express, 2002-10) Lochan, Samuel
    This article argues that Trinidad and Tobago needs technology education for all at the level of the school system. It notes that this requires (a) education that develops a problem-solving outlook in children, (b) a correction of the imbalance between science and the humanities, and (c) a self-knowledge that asserts that there are things of value in Trinidad and Tobago which can be developed to sell to the rest of the world