VP Frmatted Final with adjusted title pg..vp:CorelVentura 7.0

252 Pages·2007·1.1 MB·English

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
Publication Series
Volume 3
Gender and Education
in the Commonwealth
Caribbean
An Annotated Bibliography
Compiled by
Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina
InstituteofEducation
TheUniversityoftheWestIndies
Mona,Kingston,Jamaica
CentreforGenderandDevelopmentStudies
TheUniversityoftheWestIndies
Mona,Kingston,Jamaica
PublishedwiththesupportofUNESCO
InstituteofEducation
TheUniversityoftheWestIndies
Mona,Kingston7
Jamaica
ã2007byTheUniversityoftheWestIndies
Allrightsreserved
CoverdesignbyDelroyA.McDowell
PrintedbyPhoenixPrinteryLtd.,Kingston,Jamaica
CIPdataavailablefromTheNationalLibraryofJamaica
ISSN0799-1800
Contents
AcronymsandAbbreviations v
Introduction vii
Bibliographies 1
LiteratureReviews 3
AreasofResearch 7
AcademicAchievement 7
MaleUnderachievement 32
AccesstoEducation 57
AdultEducation 74
AgriculturalEducation 89
BiasandDiscrimination 90
ConstructionofMasculinity 94
Curriculum 99
DistanceEducation 101
EarlyChildhoodCareandEducation 103
EconomicandSocialOutcomes 104
EducationalAdministration 127
EducationalEnvironment 136
EducationalPolicies 141
EducationalPsychology 147
EngineeringEducation 157
GenderandDevelopmentStudies 158
iii
iv / Contents
GenderRoles 164
HigherEducation 176
LanguageandLiteratureEducation 186
Mathematics,Science,andTechnology 187
MedicalEducation 207
NursingEducation 208
PrimaryEducation 208
SecondaryEducation 209
TeacherEducation 217
TeachersandTeaching 220
TeachingMaterials 223
TechnicalandVocationalEducationandTraining 229
IndexofPersonalNames 243
IndexofCorporateNames/Sponsors 249
SupplementarySubjectIndex 255
NoteonCompiler 270
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACU AssociationofCommonwealthUniversities
CAP ContinuousAssessmentProgramme
CAPE CaribbeanAdvancedProficiencyExamination
CARICOM CaribbeanCommunity
CARNEID CaribbeanNetworkofEducationalInnovationfor
Development
CDB CaribbeanDevelopmentBank
CEE CommonEntranceExamination
CGDS CentreforGenderandDevelopmentStudies
CHESS CommonwealthHigherEducationSupportScheme
CIDA CanadianInternationalDevelopmentAgency
CINTERFOR CentroInteramericanodeInvestigaciónyDocu-
mentaciónsobreFormaciónProfesional(Inter-
AmericanResearchandDocumentationCentreon
VocationalTraining)
CSEC CaribbeanSecondaryEducationCertificate
CTTP ComprehensiveTeacherTrainingProgramme
CXC CaribbeanExaminationsCouncil
DFID DepartmentforInternationalDevelopment
GCE GeneralCertificateofEducation
HEART HumanEmploymentandResourceTraining
ICAE InternationalCouncilforAdultEducation
ICT Informationandcommunicationstechnology
ILO InternationalLabourOrganization
IT Informationtechnology
ITE Initialteachereducation
NFE Non-formaleducation
NGO Non-governmentalorganization
OECS OrganisationofEasternCaribbeanStates
v
vi / AcronymsandAbbreviations
PIOJ PlanningInstituteofJamaica
SEA SecondaryEntranceAssessment
STD Sexuallytransmitteddisease
TMP TeenageMothersProject
UNDP UnitedNationsDevelopmentProgramme
UNECLAC UnitedNationsEconomicCommissionforLatin
AmericaandtheCaribbean
UNESCO UnitedNationsEducational,ScientificandCultural
Organization
UNICEF UnitedNationsChildren’sFund
UNIFEM UnitedNationsDevelopmentFundforWomen
UWI TheUniversityoftheWestIndies
WAND WomenandDevelopmentUnit
WHO WorldHealthOrganization
WLEIT&T Women’sLeadershipandEnhancementInstituteof
TrinidadandTobago
Introduction
Gender and Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean—An Annotated
Bibliography was prepared at the request of the Centre for Gender
andDevelopmentStudies,Mona,andpublishedbytheInstituteofEdu-
cation, The University of the West Indies, Mona, with the support of
UNESCO. It includes journal articles, monographs, theses and disserta-
tions,conferencepapers,andsomeunpublishedmanuscripts.
Arrangement of Entries and Aids to Retrieval
The entries in this bibliography are arranged alphabetically by broad
themes,thenbyauthorandtitleundereachtopic.Itisobviousthatsome
entriescouldhavebeenplacedundermorethanonetopicheading,butin
theinterestofspaceonlyoneentrywasmadeforeachrecord,underwhat
was determined to be the most appropriate heading. The Areas of
ResearchlistedintheContentsaretheprimarytoolforretrievingentries.
TheSupplementarySubjectIndexliststopicsofinterestotherthanthose
mentionedundertheAreasofResearch.
Eachentryhasauniqueitemnumbertoaidretrievalthroughthethree
indexes provided—a Personal Name Index, an Index of Corporate
Names/Sponsors, and a Supplementary Subject Index. It should be
noted that the Personal Name Index and the Index of Corporate
Names/Sponsorsincludenamesofpersons/organizationswhich,though
not mentioned on the title page, have made a significant contribution to
the work. Numbers under each entry in the indexes refer to the unique
itemnumberassignedinthemaintext.Locationinformationisprovided
for many of the items, indicating holding institutions and location sym-
bols.However,thisdoesnotmeanthatthesearetheonlyinstitutionsthat
havecopiesoftheitems.Usersofthebibliographyareadvisedtoconsult
theirlocallibrariesaswellasotherrelevantinstitutionsforcopiesoflisted
items.
vii
viii / Introduction
Abstracting
The items for which abstracts have not been supplied represent items
thatthecompilerwasnotabletoconsult,eithertoverifytheentriesorto
prepare an abstract, or for which abstracts could not be located in data-
bases. There are 48 such records in the bibliography, representing
approximately 12 percent of the entries. Where a copy of the document
wasnotobtained,anattemptwasmadetosupplyasmuchbibliographical
informationaspossible.Certainabbreviationshavebeenusedtoindicate
omissionsinthebibliographicalinformationsupplied:
n.p. nopagination
S.l. noplaceofpublication
s.n. nopublishername
Location Codes
In order to aid retrieval of the documents identified in the bibliography,
an attempt was made to identify locations in the regional libraries with
online catalogues, as well as the libraries and collections to which the
compilerhadphysicalaccess.Thecodesfortheselocationsareasfollows:
CERIS CaribbeanEducationalResearchInformationService
CGDS,UWICH CentreforGenderandDevelopmentStudies,UWI,
CaveHillCampus
CGDS,UWIM CentreforGenderandDevelopmentStudies,UWI,
MonaCampus
CGDS,UWISA CentreforGenderandDevelopmentStudies,UWI,
St.AugustineCampus
COBLibrary CollegeoftheBahamasLibrary
ECLACPOS EconomicCommissionforLatinAmericaandthe
Caribbean,Port-of-Spain
MainLibrary,UWICH MainLibrary,UWI,CaveHillCampus
MainLibrary,UWIM MainLibrary,UWI,MonaCampus
MainLibrary,UWISA MainLibrary,UWI,St.AugustineCampus
NALIS NationalLibraryandInformationService,Trinidad
andTobago
NLJ NationalLibraryofJamaica
Introduction / ix
SOELibrary,UWISA SchoolofEducation,Library,UWI,St.Augustine
Campus
UVILibraries UniversityoftheVirginIslandsLibraries
WAND WomenandDevelopmentUnit,UWI,CaveHill
Campus