Sheron Burns

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Teacher Researcher and Children's Advocate at Teecha

The literature establishes that a child's language development begins before birth and precedes to the beginning of formal education. For this reason, the first place of learning is the home, under the guidance of parents and family. Therefore, on entering a school system, a young child already has a base of knowledge and can communicate competentl...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and resulting school closures, present a serious threat to young children’s care, learning, and the achievement of their developmental potential (UNESCO, 2020a). Disruptions to normal school functioning worldwide have presented challenges for teachers who were generally unprepared to teach using different methodologies (United...

In the Eastern Caribbean, there is currently a group of 11 independent and non-independent predominantly English-Speaking Caribbean Islands which collaborate under the auspices of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) on issues such as economic and education harmonisation and integration. The current OECS Education Sector Strategy 201...

The literature establishes that a child's language development begins before birth and precedes to the beginning of formal education. For this reason, the first place of learning is the home, under the guidance of parents and family. Therefore, on entering a school system, a young child already has a base of knowledge and can communicate competentl...

The literature establishes that a child’s’ language development begins before birth and precedes the beginning of formal education. For this reason, the first place of learning is the home, under the guidance of parents and family. Therefore, on entering a school system, a young child already has a base of knowledge and can communicate competently...

The vast majority of the islands in the Anglophone Caribbean ratified the Convention of the Rights of the Child shortly after its adoption by the United Nations in 1989. In this piece, we examine how the articulation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child in the Caribbean has shaped early childhood care and education. We note that though sign...

Teachers’ knowledge and use of developmentally appropriate strategies are vital for creating the enabling early learning environments that foster the development of the ideal Caribbean Community (CARICOM) citizen who is ready to face the challenges of living in the twenty-first century. Early childhood education in the Eastern Caribbean refers to p...

Despite being universally recognized terms, both child and childhood have various meanings: including biologically, legally and socially constructed ones. A biologically constructed definition of child refers to an individual between birth and full growth or in the developmental stage of childhood (Baldwin, 1983; Berk, 1994). Legally a child has fe...