James, Cynthia2010-03-082010-03-082005https://hdl.handle.net/2139/6164This article takes off from a 2004 book, "Constructing Childhood," by Allison and Adrian James, which examines the agencies and social policies that construct childhood in the UK, and concludes that however much society tries to protect, regulate, and oversee the growing of children, children are not passive factors in their construction. This argument is seen as providing a context for some of the factors that should be considered in tinkering with the education system in Trinidad and TobagoenChildhoodTrinidad and TobagoArticle