National Debt and Public Education in Jamaica: "Glocal" Challenges and Responses

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dc.contributor.advisorJames, Carl Everton
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Giselle Francine
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-13T14:03:52Z
dc.date.available2020-11-13T14:03:52Z
dc.date.copyright2020-09
dc.date.issued2020-11-13
dc.date.updated2020-11-13T14:03:52Z
dc.degree.disciplineSociology
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is a transnational case study, designed to capture how structural adjustment and austerity have affected public primary schooling in Jamaica, and the response(s) of alumni associations in the Torontonian-Jamaican Diaspora to this phenomenon. Using ethnography, auto-ethnography and semi-structured interviewing qualitative methodologies, data were collected in a rural primary school in Hanover, Jamaica in order to ascertain the everyday experience narrative of structural adjustment. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews were conducted in the Greater Toronto Area in order to determine how and why members of the schools alumni association support the school through group educational remittances. Framed by an anti-colonial discursive framework, this study explicates the transnational-diasporic nature of public schooling and draws attention to the Government of Jamaicas inability to provide an adequate and appropriate public school program, as well as its controversial tendency to claw back funding from schools who have active alumni associations abroad. This dissertation also provides a window into the efficacy/inefficacy of non-financial educational remittances which, although well-intended, are, sometimes, more harmful than helpful to their recipients. In contrast to this, the everyday tenacious hope that exists at the poorly resourced primary school that was selected for this study is illuminated.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37996
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectSociology of education
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsAusterity
dc.subject.keywordsCaribbean
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsDiaspora
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsJamaica
dc.subject.keywordsRemittances
dc.subject.keywordsSchooling
dc.subject.keywordsStructural adjustment
dc.titleNational Debt and Public Education in Jamaica: "Glocal" Challenges and Responses
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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