Child development in the Caribbean
| dc.Institution | ||
| dc.contributor.author | Baird, Cecilene L. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Bernard Van Leer Foundation | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | The Hague, Netherlands | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-18T17:52:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-18T17:52:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1974 | |
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| dc.description.abstract | 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 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Caribbean Regional Seminar on Early Childhood Education, 2nd, Willemstad, Curacao, 6-11 May, 1974 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Bernard Van Leer Foundation | |
| dc.extent | pp. 10-23 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 634 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/52735 | |
| dc.publisher | Bernard Van Leer Foundation | |
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| dc.source | Innovation in early childhood education: Report of the second Caribbean seminar | |
| dc.source.uri | School of Education Library, UWISA - WI RES LB1140 I58 | |
| dc.subject.other | Educational research | |
| dc.title | Child development in the Caribbean | |
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