Education Research Gender, Education and Development - A Partially Annotated and Selective Bibliography

Western Samoa

Gender and Education
'E au le Inailau a Tamaitai': Women, Education
and Development, Western Samoa, Ph.D. Thesis,
Macquire University, North Ryde, NSW.

Annotations - Tropical islands in the
Caribbean

Individual countries

Pacific islands - General

Indian ocean - Individual countries

Individual countries

Jamaica

Jamaica

MILLER, Errol 1986 Marginalisation of the Black Male: insights from the
Development of the Teaching Profession, ISER, U.W.I.

Unlike many of the other countries in this Bibliography, Jamaica has a good record in
girls' education; in fact the girls out-perform the boys. Girls out-number boys in
traditional high, private high and comprehensive high schools, all of which enjoy higher
social status and are seen as more effective agents of upward social mobility than the
new secondary schools where boys out-number girls. Among Jamaican full-time degree
students at the University of the West Indies in 1984-85 females out-numbered males
(53.9% to 46.1%), although not in mathematics or physical sciences. The teaching
profession is predominantly female (87.3% in primary & all-age schools; 65.9% in
secondary schools) although men do hold a disproportionate number of head-teacher
posts in the school system. In this book Errol Miller examines the evolution of the
teaching profession and the teacher-training colleges in Jamaica and, with particular
reference to the effects of the last decade of the nineteenth century, advances the
hypothesis that-

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