This study examines aspects of Grenada's National
In-Service Teacher Education Programme (NISTEP),
1980-1983. NISTEP is analysed in the historical context of the social and educational changes which occurred in Grenada during this period. The writer first describes the strategies and innovations used by the People's Revolutionary Government to establish the programme as a comprehensive,national teacher training approach for all
unqualified Primary school teachers. This replaced
the inadequate system that had left Grenada with the problem of having a large proportion of its teachers untrained for their profession.NISTEP is then described from the perspective of its aims, its component sub-systems, and how it operated
