Caribbean Studies Seminar Series | ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica
Online: 25 March 2025, 4:00PM – 5:30PM.
Speaker: Deanna Lyncook (School of History, Queen Mary University of London).
Chair: Sabrina Bowen (Birkbeck, University of London).
The foundational philosophy of education in Jamaica, born out of the emancipation era, primarily reinforced class but also racial and gender based distinctions. Educating children to the standard they were supposed to occupy. This paper will track the philosophical changes through the 20th century from a system that educated children to fit their perceived station to an attempt to create a system that gave all children an opportunity to receive the best education where their advancement was based on their ability to succeed rather than their parents ability to pay.
This paper will be taken from my developing PhD research which explores the experiences of Caribbean children migrating to Britain in the 1960s. Using oral testimony alongside education policy to explore the experiences of these children in a transnational context. Ultimately, I will explore whether the philosophy of education impacted educational outcomes for children that were educated during this time; using archival information from the Jamaica National Archives and UWI Mona library and oral histories conducted in both Britain and Jamaica. […]
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REGARDS CNRS (18 de marzo de 2025). Caribbean Studies Seminar Series | ‘Many See The Problem. Only Some Want Changes’: The changing philosophy of education in 20th Century Jamaica. Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 7 de marzo de 2026 de https://doi.org/10.58079/13hv6





