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The Focus on Youth Prevention and Education Research Programme
Get PDFLike many developing or transitional countries affected by the HIV epidemic, The Bahamas has been deeply committed to HIV and sexually transmitted infection reduction and continues to make great strides in controlling the epidemic within its boundaries. Encouraged by the impact of the Focus on Youth Caribbean (FOYC), a school-based HIV/AIDS prevention programme and its parenting component on Grade 6 and Grade 10 students and their parents, a team of researchers from The Bahamas and the United States sought to implement a similar programme at a national level, while simultaneously evaluating factors that impact the sustainability of sexual risk-reduction programmes like FOYC. This paper describes five research projects conducted in The Bahamas between 1998 and 2016 and includes a list of over 40 published research article
Applying Task-based Language Teaching in Introductory Level Mandarin Language Classes at The College of The Bahamas
Get PDFIn foreign-language teaching and learning, there exist a number of methodologies and approaches. The idea and principles of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the task-based framework in language teaching and learning have proven to be effective in classrooms. The three pedagogic goals for task-based approaches—communication, restructuring and fluency—are also the goals of Mandarin learners. This paper explains, using examples, that the Task-based Language Teaching applied in introductory level Mandarin classes at the College of the Bahamas is helpful and that enthusiastic Bahamian learners can improve their Mandarin skills by completing various activities and tasks within the task-based framework. Observations and results obtained through using this strategy have shown that TBLT is effective in classroom Mandarin teaching and learning for Bahamian college students and adult learners, though some issues exist, which warrant further discussion
First Year English at The College of The Bahamas: Student Perceptions
Get PDFThe report presents the findings of a student exit survey of the largest first-year writing course at the College of the Bahamas, a study designed to measure students’ perception of learning in the course. To facilitate comparison, the survey instrument generally followed publicly-available survey studies of first-year composition students at other pots-secondary institutions. While exit survey suggests that students perceive the course as a whole to be beneficial for their development as academic writers, there is some evidence that students over-represented their learning in the class in their responses to the survey. Based on the data, the authors make several suggestions for improving student experience and outcomes in first-year writing courses at the College of the Bahamas
Enlightened Sexism, Structural Violence or the Failure of Representative Democracy: The 2016 Gender Equality Referendum
Get PDFThe Bahamas has a structure of inequality built into its colonial heritage and post-colonial governance. Women are not considered equal to men. In fact, many women do not see the need for equality. Some branches of the Church encourage the idea that women are less equal than men interpreting it as divine Christian law. Much like the divine right of kings, there is no challenging the doctrine. As the gender equality referendum failed once again after a 15-year gap between the vote in 2002 and the vote in 2016, can one be surprised. The failure of the referendum seems to speak to a distrust of government and a contempt for the political system, particularly in the wake of the gambling referendum, that was really an opinion poll, but, a poll that government refused to heed. The failure was also based on xenophobia, homophobia and clannishness.
Enlightened Sexism seems to be an appropriate description of the policies and laws as well as attitudes of a large portion of the Bahamian population that agreed that women should not have the same rights as men
Progress Report on the Project "Purpose and Promise: A History of the Evolution of Higher Education in The Bahamas: with particular reference to the History of The College of The Bahamas" August 1, 2009 – April 30, 2010
No full textOn June 30, 2009, I signed an Agreement with The College of The Bahamas to undertake a Project aimed at conducting research and writing on the history of post-secondary education in The Bahamas, with particular reference to the history of the College of The Bahamas. In order to facilitate this undertaking, The College appointed me as Scholar-in-Residence from August 1, 2009 to September 30, 2011, on the understanding that I would undertake research and write a book on the subject described.
The report that follows documents the activities that I have undertaken to date in fulfilling my commitments in relation to this project and a sample of preliminary findings emerging from the research so far conducted.
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Dr Bethel died in February 2011 before completing the book. This article is an outline of the work she completed. A commentary on the outline is included in this volume of the journal: see Davis. L. A. (2016). Commentary on K. M. Bethel, Progress Report on the Project. The International Journal of Bahamian Studies, 22, 74-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.15362/ijbs.v22i0.27
Report on a Continuing Professional Education Needs Assessment among Library Personnel in The Bahamas
Get PDFThe College of The Bahamas Libraries and Instructional Media Services department is the premier academic and research library in the country. Its mission is to meet the needs and expectations of its patrons by acquiring and maintaining extensive physical and digital repositories of resources to support teaching and research. During a library symposium held in 2016 the planning committee surveyed attendees to gather information about their educational background and needs and goals for continuing professional education. The article summarizes the findings and potential implications of the survey
Commentary on K. M. Bethel, Progress Report on the Project
Get PDFDr Keva M. Bethel, President Emerita of The College of The Bahamas was appointed by The College as Scholar-in-Residence from August 1, 2009 to September 30, 2011. Her brief was to write a book on the history of post-secondary education in The Bahamas, with particular reference to the history of The College of The Bahamas. The report of progress on this assignment, the subject of this commentary, builds upon her preliminary findings, covering the period from August 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010, written before her death in 2011, and published in this volume of the International Journal of Bahamian Studies
Editorial for Volume 22 (2016)
No full textThe final editorial for the IJBS published under The College of The Bahamas
Review of Archipelago Tourism
Get PDFArchipelago Tourism: Policies and Practices, editor Godfrey Baldaccino
Equal Protection of the Law: The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities) Act, 2014, Bahamas
Get PDFThe Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities) Act, 2014 is a new and informative piece of legislation, the purpose of which is to provide equal opportunities for persons with disabilities. This paper explores the basis of the Act, which has its foundation in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The legislation further facilitates the rights and freedoms provided under the Bahamian Constitution, and underscores fundamental rights.
This analysis of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities) Act, 2014, examines the nature and scope of equal rights and whether the Act provides adequate enforcement. The aim of the provisions is to restrict discrimination against persons with disabilities by providing opportunities on an equal basis and to require persons having dealings with the disabled to accommodate their needs. It is questionable whether the Act fulfils its purpose and whether penalties for failure to comply with the Act are adequate, as there is a lacuna or gap in the law, which hinders purposeful rights