Reimagining Quality Secondary Education: Community Voices from the BVI

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Policy, Language, and Educational Transformation in the Caribbean

Abstract

This paper reports on how British Virgin Islanders articulate quality education and compare their perspectives to what is currently being pushed as sustainable developmental goals for education. One way we can engage in this act of unforgetting is by decolonizing ways in which we gather data. This study offers an alternative to the dominant Monitoring & Evaluation approaches that make judgements about development and instead, centers local voice regarding the quality of education offered. Our methodological approach marks a ground-up approach to informing the national curriculum, articulating indicators of education quality, and forming ideas around homegrown solutions for the BVI education systems.

Authors

• Anica G. Bowe, Rutgers University - Newark

• Jasmattie Yamraj, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College