The UWI Press launches Canute S. Thompson’s Reimagining Educational Leadership in the Caribbean
Regional Headquarters, Kingston, Jamaica, Friday, 13 September 2019— The University of the West Indies Press announces the launch of Canute S. Thompson’s Reimagining Educational Leadership in the Caribbean on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 5:00 p.m., at the Mona Campus Undercroft of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) in Jamaica.
In Reimagining Educational Leadership in the Caribbean, the author contends that postmodernism ought to be the guiding construct in considering leadership in education and management. “Postmodernism,” Thompson says, “challenges convention, embraces otherness and champions the diversification of authority. Educational leadership in a postmodern era must be informed by an approach of radical inclusivity and power sharing.”
The book explains that the approach is predicated on the assumption students are capable of offering meaningful suggestions for improvements in the processes of teaching and delivery of learning and that practitioners possess the knowledge and experience to inform policy. At the heart of this proposed new approach to educational leadership is the contention that zones of exclusive expertise have been overturned by the advent of postmodernism: the focus of assessments and the usefulness of ideas should not be on whose ideas they are but on the merits of these ideas, regardless of source.
Drawing on his original theory of Proposition MRM (modelling, respect, motivation), Thompson explores issues that face educational and other leaders in the Caribbean in a manner that has not yet been undertaken so extensively.
Reimagining Educational Leadership in the Caribbean is practitioner-sensitive and is written in a non-technical style to be accessible to educators at all levels and others interested in social change.
For further information about this topic, or to schedule an interview, book signing or author tour with the author, contact Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager, at The UWI Press, at (876) 977-2659, 702-4081/2 or email donna.muirhead@uwimona.edu.jm.
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About The UWI
For more than 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider world. The UWI evolved from a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally respected, regional university with near 50,000 students across five campuses: 4 Landed: Cave Hill in Barbados; Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda, Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago; and an Open Campus with over 42 locations serving 17 Caribbean territories.
The world’s most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education, has ranked The UWI among the top 600 universities in the world for 2020, and the 40 best universities in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2018 and 2019. The UWI is the only Caribbean-based University to make these prestigious lists and is one of only two regional universities in the world (the other being the University of South Pacific).
As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa including the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development; the Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute with Brock University; the Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric Development with Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES); The UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
The regional university offers more than 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. As the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost objective is driving sustainable economic growth and development. Visit www.uwi.edu.
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