Vivienne Roberts

Aleksandra Ionowan (1899-1980) elämä taiteilijana alkoi henkimaailman ohjauksessa heinäkuussa 1946. Seuraavien vuosikymmenten aikana hän loi satoja, ellei tuhansia teoksia, jotka ovat ihastuttaneet lukuisia taiteilijoita, teosofeja, kristittyjä, selvänäkijöitä, vapaamuurareita ja antroposofeja. Hänen taiteensa koettiin välittävän syvää ja ajaotnta viisautta. Se kuvasi toisenlaista, henkistä todellisuutta.

The Barbados Community College Experience establishes the genesis of the college and the ongoing impact of globalization and educational borrowing. It examines the North American community college's influence on the Caribbean pool, the global community college movement and its emerging global counterparts. By deriving five models of development in the region, Vivienne Roberts opens a new window to the community college experience in the anglophone Caribbean by bringing to the fore the reality of more than twenty relevant institutions. Barbados has been the community college pioneer in the anglophone Caribbean and a fairly early entrant to the worldwide community college movement. Roberts sets the Barbados experience in its local, regional and global contexts by exploring the phases of establishment, consolidation, expansion and reputation building, and uncertainty and reinvention. The colleges' widening scope of operations from transfer to vocational, community engagement, remediation, baccalaureate, and adult and continuing education roles is discussed. The book also interrogates the extent to which the Barbados Community College has shown leadership within the Caribbean and demonstrated the values of accessibility, affordability, flexibility, community engagement and innovation while impacting student success, stakeholder satisfaction and fulfilment of its mission.

As tertiary education in the Caribbean enters a period of expansion and maturity, this book is a timely study into how the sector should evolve if it is to meet its target of increasing enrolment from under 10 per cent to 15 per cent by 2005. It explores the issues involved in providing an optimum learning and teaching environment, and presents options for policy, strategic design and leadership to provide an accessible, responsive education system.