Browsing by Author "Baird, Cecilene L."

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    Child development in the Caribbean
    (Bernard Van Leer Foundation, 1974) Baird, Cecilene L.; Bernard Van Leer Foundation
    This paper 1) underlines the paucity of educational research in the Caribbean, 2) analyses the educational policies implemented during the pre-independence period, 3) presents proposals for compensatory education, and 4) discusses a general philosophy of preprimary education adapted to the particular needs of the region. As a consequence of behaviour patterns, instructional innovation has led to poor results. In the past, emphasis was on academic skills ensuring a continuity of subservience. There is no equal education. Preschool education should be conceived as an instrument of national development, serving the traditional community needs, and being both preventive--promoting human development and therapeutic--reduction of deficiencies. In this education for readiness, new skills, attitudes, and values should be conveyed. Parent participation has to be enhanced--possible parent education programmes are sketched. The adequate implementation of all these proposals implies the launching of an important educational research programme
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    Preoccupations of a sample of adolescents receiving secondary education in Guyana
    (University of Guyana, 1969) Baird, Cecilene L.;