Self-Evaluation among Jamaican High School Girls

Self-Evaluation among Jamaican High School Girls

was first published in Social and Economic Studies Volume 23 Number 4 December 1973 Pg407-426 and reprinted in Caribbean Journal of Education Volume 26 Numbers 1 and 2 April/September 2006 Pp 47-75

The article is an empirical study of self-evaluation as measured by self-esteem, self-disparity and manifest anxiety among a random stratified sample of girls in Jamaican high schools in the city of Kingston in relation to their race/colour, socioeconomic background and the perception of their teachers. The study employs a cross-sequential design and includes 721 girls. The data obtained are used to test eight hypotheses six of which are confirmed and two rejected.

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    Professor Errol Miller has had a rather unique professional and public service career which has given him almost a three hundred and sixty-degree exposure within the education enterprise. He has been a high school science teacher; university lecturer in science education; college principal; university professor, chancellor of a university college, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education; independent senator in the Parliament of Jamaica; a president of the teachers’ association; a chairman of the board of the state broadcasting corporation; chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica; a researcher; an author; an international consultant; chairman or member of several school and college boards.

    Illiteracy, Gender and Access to High Schooling

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    (1996) In Education in the West Indies. Editor Dennis Craig. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies. Mona. Pp 47-74.

    Invariably it is argued that mastery of literacy is a prerequisite to movement from the primary to the secondary levels of education. This line of thought assumes a linear and unidirectional relationship between literacy and schooling. Jamaica is one of only a few countries of the world that has systematically and periodically tested literacy levels of its population 15 years and over during the latter half of the 20th century. Between 1975 and 2000 this was done by administering a functional literacy test is the same one percent random stratified sample as used in the country’s annual labour force survey.

    Using the results of the 1993 Adult Literacy Survey commissioned by the JAMAL Foundation, this study examined illiteracy, gender and the number of high school places available through performance in the annual Common Entrance Examination selecting students for high schooling. Analysis of these data suggests that where access to the most desired high schools is competitive illiteracy in the adult population is highest in parishes in which the number of high school places is lowest leading to the cut-off point in the Common Entrance Examination for placement was highest. In other words, greater access to the upper level of schooling appeared to be an inspiration to striving while limited access to the upper level appeared to be an inhibitor to striving. Put another way, the relationship between the upper and lower levels of education in the Jamaica context in the 1990s appeared to be two-directional: pre-requisite and motivational.

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    Gender and the Family

    Some Theoretical Considerations

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    Gender and the Family: Some Theoretical Considerations. (1998) In Gender and the Family in the Caribbean. Editor: Wilma Bailey. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Pp 1-31

    Gender and the Family attempts to set out an appropriate theoretical framework in which to interpret and explain data and research findings on gender and the family, with special reference to shortcomings of existing theories as applied to Caribbean data. Patriarchy is defined in terms of genealogy, generation, and gender. Genealogy establishes the external boundaries of patriarchal collectives. Generation and gender establish internal rank within the kinship collective. Family is identified historically as one variety of patriarchal kinship collectives. Gender is defined principally in terms of the sexual division of power and not of labour. From this perspective gender issues are shown as not restricted solely to women’s issues but also includes marginalisation of alien men, that is, men outside of the covenant of kinship.

    The position is taken that the nation-state organized on the basis of the individual as the unit of organisation and the transcendental values of equality, individual constitutional rights and social justice is in fundamental conflict with civil society structure on the basis of the family as the unit of organisation and patriarchal roles, authority and obligations as the foundation of action. This dialectic combined with the conflict and contest between groups for power and position in the nation are shown to be the major sources of transformation in the structure of the society including gender and family relations.

    Two processes are identified. One is partnership between the men and women of dominant groups to advance or maintain the interests and position of their group. The other is a partial exclusion of males of the subordinate groups from the mainstream of upward social mobility opportunities in preference for the females of this group. The societal outcomes are the phenomena of feminization and male marginalisation within the nation-state.

    The framework constructed is then used to explain examples of seemingly contradictory research findings concerning the family and gender that have been reported in research on these topics and themes in the Caribbean.

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      In-Service Teacher Education in the Caribbean

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      (1990) Editor. CARNEID, Barbados. 72 pages.

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      Jamaican Society and High Schooling

      1990. Institute of Social and Economic Research University of the West Indies, Mona. Kingston Jamaica.

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      Jamaican Society and High Schooling

      Published by the Institute of Social and Economic Research of the University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston Jamaica, 1990

      Jamaican Society and High Schooling is landmark study of the history and sociology of the high school institution in Jamaica from 1850 to 1985. The study described and discussed the major policies and reforms that guided the inauguration and evolution of the public high school system over the 145 year period. This includes the creation of the Jamaica Schools Commission in 1879 with the mandate to establish public high schools from trust schools; the inclusion in 1920 of schools founded by Christian Denominations in the public system through a Grants-in-Aid Scheme; and the reforms of 1957 and adjustments in 1964. Regarding empirical data of public high school students, the study examined the socioeconomic backgrounds inclusive of race, class, gender, and residence. For the period 1940 to 1985 this study collected and analyzed data of 14, 974 students who entered 26 high schools in the years 1942, 1952, 1962, 1972 and 1982 in order to track social changes among students entering high schools over the 40 year period.  Regarding high school teachers, the study examined their nationality, gender, teaching experience, academic and professional qualifications in relation to the geographic location of high schools. The study also examined classified wanted advertisements for the period 1900 to 1980 in the only daily newspaper that operated continuously during this time and identified the explicit statements made with respect to the race, class, gender, academic and professional qualifications of persons wanted or applying for work. These data were compared with Census data on the labour force of 1943 and 1960 and Annual Labour Force Statistics for the period 1975 to 1985. The focus of these comparisons were the socioeconomic backgrounds, gender, and qualifications of persons employed in the labour force. The empirical data gathered by the study are interpreted by the Theory of Place, which the author outlines in Chapter 2. The Book includes the Occupational Coding Scheme that was developed and used to classify students into six socioeconomic categories.

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