1st Edition

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

Edited By Therese Ferguson, Sharon Bramwell-Lalor Copyright 2025
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers readers a diversity of perspectives, experiences and practical examples from various facets of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) that can propel practice, further research and inform decision-making in the region, thus making for more cogent and effective ESE. The Caribbean region is comprised of what is said to be the largest number of Small Island Developing... Read more

Introduction: Promoting environmental and sustainability education in the Caribbean: research imperatives to inform practice

Therese Ferguson and Sharon Bramwell-Lalor

1. An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize

Rasheda Moody-Marshall

2. Linking environmental knowledge, attitude, and behavior with place: a case study for strategic environmental education planning in Saint Lucia

Momoe Kanada, Paul Norman, Naoko Kaida and Steve Carver

3. Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test

Clavia T. Williams-McBean

4. Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature

Joanne Nazir and Sharmila N. Harry

5. The arts in environmental education: connecting learners with their talents and nature

Miguel Ison and Sharon Bramwell-Lalor

6. Sustainable learning and some counterculture values in Jamaica: a Rastafarian spiritual ethos to ESD

Romina De Angelis

7. In pursuit of a sustainable future for Jamaica: values, critical consciousness, and the pre-service teacher

Denise Minott and Garth Minott

8. Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica

Carol Hordatt Gentles

9. ESD progress, problems and prospects in the English-speaking Caribbean: Some perspectives from the field

Therese Ferguson

Biography

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.