TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGES AFFECTING EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, 1864-95; CHAPTER 1 CONSENSUS AND CONFLICT OVER THE PROVISION OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; CHAPTER 2 PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE; CHAPTER 3 FACTORS INFLUENCING SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE; CHAPTER 4 THE DOMINANCE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS; CHAPTER 5 THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Summary
This study of the development of education in the British West Indian colonies during the last half of the nineteenth century examines the educational policies and curriculum used in schools following the abolition of slavery. During this period the nature and development of the educational system in the region was profoundly affected by the decline of the sugar industry, the emergence of black and coloured middle classes and the threat they posed to the ruling white elite, and the institutionalization of cultural divisions between the black and white populations. Bacchus argues that after 18
