in the second half of the 19th century refer to the establishment of new secondary schools
in British Guiana - Queen's College; Trinidad - Queen's Collegiate School; Barbados - the
Lodge School. These schools were in many respects parallel to the Collegiate School in
Jamaica, except that they were supported by the colonial governments, but the latter is not
dealt with by those who have written on education in this period, leaving a perception that
Jamaica fell behind the other territories in this respect. The history of the Collegiate School
shows that the same sorts of issues arose in Jamaica as elsewhere, and also that the men
involved with the school played a much wider role on the educational scene in the island
than merely teaching at Collegiate. One issue of particular interest is the impact on education
in Jamaica of the tradition of Scottish pedagogy which the principals of the Collegiate
represented, along with other leading educators in the island; I do not think that this Scottish influence has been dealt with in any depth anywhere.
History of education in Jamaica: A Century of West Indian Education Shirley C. Gordon Longman, London, 1963 Development and Disillusion in Third World Education, with emphasis on Jamaica edited by Vincent D'Oyley and Reginald Murray Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1979 Education in the Caribbean: Historical Perspectives edited by Ruby Hope King, Faculty of Education, 1987 Jamaican Society and High Schooling Errol Miller Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1990 Neither Led nor Driven Brian Moore and Michele Johnson UWIPress, 2004 Chapter 7 [Contains brief references to the Collegiate, but contains no information on the school's status and significance.] | A Century of West Indian Education Chapter 4, Maintaining the Provision of Education under the old West Indian Legislatures, 1845-65 page 78IV SOME PROVISION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION 3. c. The Church of Scotland maintains a This is the only reference to the Collegiate School I have so far identified in any work on Jamaican education. The heading to the item is, of course, incorrect: the Collegiate School was in Kingston. It is also misleading to say that the Collegiate School was maintained by the Church of Scotland; it was run by clergy of the Church, but was not supported financially by the Church. The Church of Scotland did in fact maintain an excellent Academy in Montego Bay, chiefly to educate Jamaicans to be teachers and catechists. That Academy operated in Montego Bay from 1845 to 1871.
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