Adult Education in the Caribbean at the Turn of the Century

Abstract

This monograph examines how adult education has responded, and is responding, to the challenges of preparing and equipping Caribbean people to be able to function effectively and contribute meaningfully to the national and regional development as they enter the 21st century. It does this by exploring the five major themes that gained prominence in the last two decades of the 21st century: 1) work, 2) information and communication technology and communications, 3) gender, 4) health and the environment, and 5) literacy. Through brief case studies, it examines how the following selected countries have addressed and treated these themes through adult education: Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago. The general review generates some of the important issues and challenges that should set the agenda for adult education in the Caribbean in the new millennium.