Education for Liberty: the future is open to suggestions

by Fazal Ali, Gabriella D'Abreau (Illustrator), Judy Raymond (Editor)

This monograph explores the release of the imagination allowing learners to use their actual minds to create their possible worlds. Learners are therefore released for moral and intellectual autonomy. Their capabilities are augmented and heightened by widening their horizons, increasing their awareness of choice, enlarging their points of reference, and layering their levels of perception. To achieve this transformation the entrepreneurial state must re-examine the nine frames of the ecology of West Indian schooling. The aims of plantation schooling was never to make the enslaved, the emancipated or the indentured the owners of capital or the landlords of profit. The next step must be to design a system of education that merges seamlessly into the realities of a border-less world economy, a capabilities approach to development, the intellectual and moral imperative to change the world, and the rise of an elite cosmopolitan class of entrepreneurs and creatives in the West Indies. It is not a blue print rather the text turns on the idea that the future is open to suggestions.

196 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2017