Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in the English-Speaking Caribbean

Therese Ferguson, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the School of Education (SOE) at The University of the West Indies (Mona Campus, Jamaica). She serves as Coordinator of the SOE’s ESD Working Group, and Programme Leader for Change from Within, a school-based initiative in Jamaica that addresses violence. Sharon Bramwell-Lalor, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the Mona Campus of The University of the West Indies. Her primary instructional areas are Science Education and Environmental Education. She is a member of the Education for Sustainable Development Working Group at the School.

Introduction: Promoting environmental and sustainability education in the Caribbean: research imperatives to inform practice 1. An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize 2. Linking environmental knowledge, attitude, and behavior with place: a case study for strategic environmental education planning in Saint Lucia 3. Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test 4. Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature 5. The arts in environmental education: connecting learners with their talents and nature 6. Sustainable learning and some counterculture values in Jamaica: a Rastafarian spiritual ethos to ESD 7. In pursuit of a sustainable future for Jamaica: values, critical consciousness, and the pre-service teacher 8. Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica 9. ESD progress, problems and prospects in the English-speaking Caribbean: Some perspectives from the field