Book Launch "Children In The Back Row
Dr. Lennox Bernard, UWI Lecturer, Independent Senator
announced at a recent book launch that recommendations will soon be presented to parliament
to implement a Trinidad and Tobago Youth programme with a mandatory service learning element.
He predicts that this recommendation will be
met with some resistance but it must be an essential part of a solution to our
nation’s increasing crime rate.
Dr.
Bernard was the featured speaker at a book launching of “The Voice of the Children
in the Back Row” hosted at NALIS a couple of weeks ago.
The book authored by Kathleen Robinson, a veteran educator
who currently lectures at UTT, provides an exploratory narrative of four
fictional students. The background is in
a native Caribbean setting that is representative of any of the islands.
It allows the readers to see from the eyes of
a teacher the reasons why a child would choose to sit in the back row. It mingles non-fiction with the actual reality. Unintentionally
and simultaneously, the book analyzes the teacher’s perspective as she narrates
her experience with each student. This
is Mrs. Robinson’s first literary work.
Here is an article reporting on the launch of the book in the Trinidad Newsday
If you are interested in the dynamic of a Caribbean classroom experience you can get your online copy from Amazon.com.
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