10 research outputs found
Are black people suspicious of taking the COVID-19 vaccine?
No full texthttps://www.jamaicaobserver.com/your-health-your-wealth/are-black-people-suspicious-of-taking-the-covid-19-vaccine-_23157
A panel data analysis of policy effectiveness for renewable energy expansion on Caribbean islands
No full textWhy can’t everyone pass? Context responsive teaching and learning in urban primary schools
No full textEconomic, social and embodied cultural capitals as shapers and predictors of boys' educational aspirations
No full textThe paper presents the result of a quantitative survey as a part of a larger mixed-method study conducted across two case study schools in urban Jamaica. It focuses on Black Caribbean boys’ levels of educational aspirations in relation to their economic, social and embodied cultural capital. The study utilises Bourdieu’s notions of ‘capital’, reconceptualised to match the socio-cultural context of the research and set within a critical realist meta-theoretical framework. Logistic regression models, supported by participants’ narratives, show boys’ educational aspirations to be highly predictable by their level of capital - including dispositional beliefs held through influence of the maternal family both locally and in the Jamaican diaspora of the UK, USA and Canada
