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Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context: A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in HaitiThis book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language practices and school underperformance. He takes Haiti as the focus of study, finding that students and teachers experience difficulty constructing knowledge in a setting in which the language they spe

The Education System of HaitiThis chapter discusses Haiti’s educational context in comparison to the state of education in the world as assessed by UNESCO’s classification. While the discussion takes into account the history that informs Haitian society, it particularly considers the...

The Education System of The BahamasThis chapter illustrates that in the period from the second half of the twentieth century to the first quarter of the twenty-first century The Bahamas has seen changes in the educational landscape with its attendant impact on the social and economic landscapes that...

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