Education for All: Caribbean Perspectives and Imperatives:

Examines basic education programs and policies throughout the Caribbean in the context of worldwide educational priorities. Global statements on basic education presented at the 1990 World Conference on Education for All are interpreted in terms of Caribbean economic and social realities and resources.
Effective primary and secondary education is seen as the cornerstone of the Caribbean's ability to advance and compete in the global community. Education for All, which includes case studies in Haiti, Barbados, and Jamaica, looks at promising and innovative educational programs throughout the region.09406024
This book draws on papers, documents and exhibits presented at the World Conference and the Caribbean Consultation, one of several regional meetings that preceded the World Conference. The purpose of the meetings, sponsored chiefly by the United Nations and the World Bank, was to bring together world leaders, government delegations, international organizations and eminent educators to forge a global commitment to provide sound basic education for all children and adults around the world.

Marginalisation of the Black Male: First and Second Editions

Published by the Institute of Social and Economic Research: University of the West Indies Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: 1986 First edition and Second edition, 1994. Both editions are currently out of print but are available in electronic format from the Kindle Store at Amazon.

Marginalisation of the Black Male is certainly among the first anywhere, and maybe the first, to define and document the phenomenon of male marginalization in society. This accounts for the fact that Miller is widely credited with having coined the phrase male marginalization although the term was used previously by R. T Smith with respect to certain kinship patterns in Guyana and Douglas Manley and examination performance in the Common Entrance in Jamaica. The First Edition is a case study that documents how public elementary schools teaching in Jamaica shifted from being by men who were predominantly Black in the second half of the nineteenth century and to being increasingly female in the first half of the twentieth century. This shift began after the introduction of Crown Colony Government and after the latter has first appeased grievances of the black majority that had led to the Morant Bay riot of 1865. Debates on the deliberate policies enacted by the Legislative Council of Jamaica in the 1890s, and recorded in Minutes, provide ample evidence of the intention of the Crown backed by some elected representatives. Excerpts from the debates in the Legislative Council in the 1890s on these policies are cited combined with analyses of social, economic and migration factors operative at the close of the 19^th century as the State took over funding and responsibility for public elementary schooling. The Second Edition adds a theoretical framework that shows the wider significance of the case study beyond the particular circumstances of the gender of elementary school teachers, of Jamaica and of Black people.

The Prophet and the Virgin: the Masculine and Feminine Roots of Teaching

The Prophet and the Virgin was first published by Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, and Miami: 2003. The Prophet and the Virgin seeks to answer the question, how, when and why men and women became teachers? The background to this question is the invention of writing followed by the creation of schools about 1000 years after. From beginning and against this background, the Prophet and the Virgin traces the evolution of teaching as an occupation from its beginnings in Sumer in Ancient Mesopotamia through its transformation in Ancient Greece; then through its adaptations in the classical eras of Judaism, Islam and Christianity particularly in England, and then in the United States, the first nation-state of the New World and finally in the British colonies of the West Indies. The Prophet and the Virgin ends with a majestic view of teaching rooted in vision, values and virtue.

In essence, the Prophet and the Virgin is a historical sociology of the teaching profession with a special focus on the gender of teachers. It is an exploration by a teacher of science, with post-graduate degrees in the social psychology of education, and a career in teacher education to better understand what it is to be a teacher and to be a teacher educator. It is a work that cannot be read overnight. Its 437 pages include 225 references. The writing is clear but the subject-matter multidisciplinary and sometimes dense. The intended readers are those deeply interested in and sometimes conflicted about who teachers are in society, particularly as societies and civilizations are changed by technological revolutions. The Prophet and the Virgin was written over a period of 20 years and with the assistance of Fellowship and Sabbatical leave from the University of the West Indies and two Fulbright Fellowships for Senior Academics through which access was gained to the Libraries of Stanford, Harvard and Columbia Universities.

Marking Milestones

Marking Milestones: 21 Keynote Speeches about Successful Institutions and Outstanding Leaders. Foreword by Professor Kenneth Hall Former Governor General of Jamaica. Minna Press: Kingston: 2015. Marking Milestones celebrates schools, colleges, churches and organizations that have stood the test of time in Jamaica and the Bahamas. Each speech captures the essence of the school, the church, the college or the organizations in order to herald its pioneers and inspire those living who are the beneficiaries of their genius and sacrifices. These speeches, written in an easy-going, non-academic style, persuasively remind us of who we are, the road traveled to get us here, current realities and of obligations to the future. This iconic collection, laced with humor, history, and heart, will give you a deep understanding of the circumstances and the crises that impact us individually and has shaped these two Caribbean nations.

Marking Milestones is a great gift to self or others who attended Wolmers, St Hughs, Calabar, Alpha Academy, the Mico College, the College of the Bahamas and Shortwood College or who are members of the Moravian Churches of Jamaica, the Ocho Rios Methodist Church, the Savanna La Mar Baptist Church, First Missionary Church East Street, Bethel Baptist Church Half-Way-Tree, the Victoria Mutual Building Society, The Jamaica Teachers Association, the Teachers Colleges of Jamaica, graduates of the United Theological College of the West Indies, the 2012 Graduating in Humanities and Education of the University of the West Indies, Mona  or are Kingstonians or Caribbean teachers who attended Banquet of Education International World Congress of 2004 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.